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Permalink Reply by Frank Vervoorst on October 30, 2011 at 12:16pm

I understand.

 

Thanks again. I will have fun.

 

Best, Frank

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Permalink Reply by Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk on October 30, 2011 at 1:22pm

Hey Johann,

Thanks for helping out buddy!

Regards

Martin

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Permalink Reply by Arnt-Inge Hansen on October 31, 2011 at 6:23am

Hello 

I was a little too quick to fresh sign ardustation, it looks like it does not communicate with apm. It is green in power led and the red light flashes. When I press "Start Feeds" a red light on the xbee unit in the copter is visible. But nothing further happens. What baud rate should I enter before I upload the code with the Arduino? 57k is normal I think. 

It looks like ardussation is trying to establish communications but fail..

 

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Permalink Reply by Heino R. Pull on October 31, 2011 at 8:39am

If you have your aircraft's xbee up and running with Mavlink, The blue light should be illuminated on the Ardustation even before you select start feeds. If it isn't then there isn't communication between your Xbees. Also, on my Ardustation, the red light never flashes. On my Xbee firmware that I have loaded, it indicates that the Ardustation's Xbee has power although this can be changed in the Xbees setup to indicate association. The blue light is the Rssi indicator so it also indicates received Xbee signal strength. I would check that both Xbees have the right firmware and have been configured with the same Panids. The copters Xbee should also be green and not red.

I would check your Xbees setup on both sides and 57.6k is the correct baud rate.

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Permalink Reply by Arnt-Inge Hansen on October 31, 2011 at 11:54am

Now every thing working ,yess :)

I had forgot to glide the cli switch to flight mode. When I switch to flight mode the blue led light up.It is good to note that the engines must be armed in order to receive data, it seems so for me.

Thank you all for the help

 

Arnt-Inge

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Permalink Reply by Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk on November 2, 2011 at 3:19am

Just adding a link to some additional information on the Ardustation

 

Colin has done some fantastic work with the code:

 

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/more-ardustation-mavlink-softwa...

 

Regards

 

Martin

 

www.buildyourowndrone.co.uk

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Permalink Reply by Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk on November 19, 2011 at 1:37pm

As an additional update to the postings here, one of my customers pointed out that the chip is the "UNO" on the Ardustation and needs to be selected to have the code compile and load without error!

 

Regards

 

Martin.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Anderson on November 19, 2011 at 1:52pm

Good point, Martin. I've updated the manual to remind people of that.

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Permalink Reply by Pat on December 16, 2011 at 12:13am

I'm having the same issue not being able to upload code to the Ardustation. The error message is:

Binary sketch size: 22752 bytes (of a 32256 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51

Here are my details:

-Arduino 0022

-Selected Arduino Uno (and have also tried all the other ATmega 328 permutations)

-ATmega is plugged in with the notch in the correct direction and A0-A5 labels all agree in direction

-Running Ardustation 2.0.11

-Using a 3.3V FTDI cable (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8772) with up to date drivers

-Windows 7

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

Pat

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Permalink Reply by Pat on December 16, 2011 at 12:30am

Looks like the ATMega that came with my Ardupilot kit from 3DRobotics was bad. I had another ATMega 328 from a Duemilanove that I swapped in and the code loaded without a problem.

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