Connecting to Mission Planner

Hi!

I am currently trying to connect my navio/raspberry to the Mission Planner. I have followed every tutorial step up to the command:
sudo systemctl start arducopter

Still, I keep receiving the message from Mission Planner saying that it is connecting to Mavlink, and yet it never does.
I’m trying udp communication, using the IP address from my laptop:

Could the quality of the network be interfering? Should I try tcp instead of udp?
Thanks!

Hello there!

Could you please post the output of emlidtool before sudo systemctl start arducopter, the content of /etc/default/arducopter and sudo journalctl -u arducopter after launching arducopter?

Sure!
I ran the commands and you can see the outputs:

Yes, the barometer is actually covered by a foam. And the journal command found no files (?). Plus, what’s with the pwm?

And the contents of /etc/default/arducopter:

Thanks! Sorry for the delay, I only have so many days/hours I can dedicate to this project every week.

The pwm passed the test after running emlidtool as an administrator with the sudo command =P
It still complains about the barometer though.

Hi!

I know one is not supposed to repost the same topic, but I haven’t gotten a reply in about two weeks and got a little desperate haha
the original problem is stated here: Connecting to Mission Planner

Thanks!

i moved your post to the existing topic, because it is easier to follow;
could you start ardupilot with
sudo systemctl start arducopter
and then post an output of
sudo journalctl -xn?
and copy the red messages from
sudo journalctl
to a post (or whole output)?

Hi panky!

I did as you asked. The red message from ‘sudo journalctl -xn’ states:
“navio systemd[1]: Failed to start Arducopter for Linux”

The whole output is:

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lines 1-28/28 (END)
– Logs begin at Thu 2017-04-20 06:16:31 UTC, end at Thu 2017-04-20 06:32:57 UTC. –
Apr 20 06:32:18 navio systemd[1]: arducopter.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 20 06:32:18 navio systemd[1]: Unit arducopter.service entered failed state.
Apr 20 06:32:19 navio systemd[1]: arducopter.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 20 06:32:19 navio systemd[1]: Stopping ArduPilot for Linux…
– Subject: Unit arducopter.service has begun shutting down
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: systemd-devel Info Page

– Unit arducopter.service has begun shutting down.
Apr 20 06:32:19 navio systemd[1]: Starting ArduPilot for Linux…
– Subject: Unit arducopter.service has begun with start-up
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: systemd-devel Info Page

– Unit arducopter.service has begun starting up.
Apr 20 06:32:19 navio systemd[1]: arducopter.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Apr 20 06:32:19 navio systemd[1]: Failed to start ArduPilot for Linux.
– Subject: Unit arducopter.service has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: systemd-devel Info Page

– Unit arducopter.service has failed.

– The result is failed.
Apr 20 06:32:19 navio systemd[1]: Unit arducopter.service entered failed state.
Apr 20 06:32:57 navio sudo[17259]: pi : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/journalctl -xn
Apr 20 06:32:57 navio sudo[17259]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by pi(uid=0)
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hi zago

open the config file for arducopter:
sudo nano /etc/default/arducopter
remove -A from the line ARDUPILOT_OPTS=… so it looks like:
ARDUPILOT_OPTS="$TELEM1 $TELEM2"

and give it a try (reboot)

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This worked just fine, I’m now connected to Mission Planner =)
Thank you for the attention! I realize it was a stupid mistake haha

I do have a new question, though, when running “sudo emildtool”, all sensors return “passed”, with the exception of the barometer, which gives me:
ERROR ms5611: Failed
– Reason: Is barometer covered with a foam?

I do have a foam covering the barometer. It is a generic piece of yellow foam, but it does block illumination from reaching the sensor.

What else could that error message indicate?

my beste guesses:
disconnect anything from i2c
use open cell foam to let the air pass through and block the “superbad” uv radiation which severely affects barometer values;
dont glue/stick adhesive completely over the barometer - basically only the foam without glue should cover the baro - put the glue/adhesive beside the baro

nothing else in my mind right now

I exchanged the piece of foam and all is good now, for whatever reason… hahaha
Thanks for help! =)