[Paparazzi-devel] ardrone2_raw / joystick success

[oswald berthold]

dear all,

yesterday i (finally) did my first paparazzi powered flight with
ardrone2_raw. the flight was done in manual mode using a joystick. this
worked out quite straightforwardly.

as for the GPS / flight recorder: there seem to be several issues
regarding the flight recorder box.

 - i have two of those boxes. the one i was using last week decided to
   quit service over the weekend, all it does now is rapid blinking of
   the LED, neither GCS nor sirf demo report any useful data from the
   device.
 - the second box was acquiring a fix but trying to follow both
   onefastdaddy's report in the mayday kill mode emails as well as
   instructions from paparazzi user manual didn't yield anything. one
   problem is that in the GCS the "Launch" button is not active
   (gray). The Start engine block doesn't have any effect
   either. although when i click the resurrect button in the control
   strip the motors spin up to idle.
 - in short i might be trying another GPS module
 - on a side note: has anyone gotten the flight recorder to appear as a
   GPS in a desktop linux system? i'm suspecting use of usb_modeswitch
   might help but the parameters ..  well.

vision: can anyone maybe comment on status and plans for the vision
framework?

finally, regarding telemetry and messages: i am confused by the fact
that the "mesages" tool only shows messages coming from the ap. how
would i go about debugging / viewing any kind of msgs on the bus such as
uplink, downlink or lateral messaging? i seem to remember using ivyprobe
for that but it only gives me the message names, not the contents.

please excuse the spill,
regards, opt