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Permalink Reply by Morli on December 18, 2009 at 6:37pm

Hi Christof ,
How is it all connected? Are you using xbee? a small skech will help to understand. I will be interested in knowing how your whole setup is connected? What OS in PC , how every thing is powered, checking the cable , what do you mean by trasfer GPS data etc? might help, Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Christof Schmid on December 18, 2009 at 10:51pm

Hi Morli
Thanks for your help. Xbee ist not connected yet. I want simply test the data of the GPS thru the FTDI. OS is XP, std powering, cable is fine as the code ca be loaded.

Christof

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Permalink Reply by Chris Anderson on December 18, 2009 at 8:49pm

Are you getting any data at all in the GCS? If not, you may not have loaded the Labview serial driver.

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Permalink Reply by Christof Schmid on December 18, 2009 at 10:52pm

Hi Chris
Thanks for your reply. What means GCS? I did not load any LV serial driver. I will check now for LV serial drivers and return here in a while.

Christof

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Permalink Reply by Chris Anderson on December 18, 2009 at 11:00pm

Ground Control Station = the Labview ArduStation

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Permalink Reply by Christof Schmid on December 19, 2009 at 2:35am

Hi Chris
This was the clue. I have COM 8 available now - connection established to GCS - perfect.
Now I am trying to get the data into Google earth. GE loads but the GPS information received from GCS seems not to be correct.

When I check the flight.kml from GCS Beta 2 in the "data" directory it reads
0,000000,0,000000,0 ("," instead of "." for coord decimals)
istead of
0.000000,0.000000,0

Maybe its PC related, I have to check that first.

BR
Christof

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Permalink Reply by Morli_ on December 19, 2009 at 3:26am

What version of Labview are you running? You can download GCS with LV ver 8.5 in the GCS thread ( by Dr.Mike & team) in this forum

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Permalink Reply by Christof Schmid on December 22, 2009 at 2:31pm

Thanks for the help you provided. The system is up and running including xbee downlink. Next step is integrating OSD and then the first flight.

Christof

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Permalink Reply by Morli on December 22, 2009 at 2:59pm

Hi Christof,
Good to hear it is working now. What was wrong and how did you solve it? Appreciate a feed back on it would help others who might face the same issue :)) . thanks. Looking forward to hear about the OSD side. good luck

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Permalink Reply by Christof Schmid on December 22, 2009 at 11:17pm

Hi Morli
Of course you are right. I was running a XP (english) on a HP Mini book. All settings where set to german. Obviously the GPS Data was formatted the wrong way with this OS setting. ( "," <-> ".")
Now I work on a std Notebook using W7. All settings on german. (or better: same language). All application SW used so far for programming the components and view Data run perfect w W7 although the suppliers sometimes do not mention this OS version ( Example Digi - X-CTU)
Hopefully this might help.

BR Christof

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