Edge - Arducopter 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7dev compilation

mlebret · March 7, 2019, 2:36pm

Hello,

I have an Emlid Edge card with official Emlid 3.5.5 Arducopter.

This firmware is working well but quite old…

If Edge is not an option with Waf and 3.5 arducopter branch, Waf accept to compile copter version from 3.6 or Master branch. However 3.6.7 or 3.7dev version of arducopter do not run on Edge. I have a red blinking led (error) when trying it.

Is it an Edge hardware limitation somewhere or a software problem?

Thanks for your help,

Marc

tatiana.andreeva · March 11, 2019, 1:51pm

Hi @mlebret,

I’ll try to reproduce it and get back to you with updates.

dmitriy.ershov · March 20, 2019, 12:12pm

Hi Marc,

We reproduced the described behavior, thanks for reporting. We will dig into the issue and report back once there are news.

mlebret · March 22, 2019, 9:24am

Thanks for your work,

There is some clues with how data (some parameters) is stored (permanently?) in the Edge card or the Rpi compute module.

There is no easy way to clear memory when installing a fresh 1.5 image (some old parameters are still present somewhere) and if I try to run emlidtool with a recent arducopter 3.6.x, there is a wrapper error msg.

Marc

Lucas_De_Marchi · April 4, 2019, 9:16am

I just built and ran arducopter from master branch and it’s working fine. What exactly is not working for you?

mlebret · April 4, 2019, 9:28am

Hi Lucas,

When compiling from Master (1 month ago) or 3.6.7 branch, Arducopter start but hang somewhere and Edge light is blinking Red.

If I replace the 3.5.5 arducopter with 3.6.7 in the fresh EmlidEdge image file, I have the Startup error (in the Emlidtool window).

Thanks,

Marc

Lucas_De_Marchi · April 4, 2019, 3:12pm

I only tried on master branch. I compiled it and left it running during night with no problem.

mlebret · April 4, 2019, 3:33pm

Thanks for the information,

I will have another try.

Marc

mlebret · April 4, 2019, 6:12pm

Hello,

Something is missing…

Marc

Lucas_De_Marchi · April 4, 2019, 6:31pm

what toolchain did you use?

Lucas_De_Marchi · April 4, 2019, 6:33pm

it should work with

~/p/buildroot/output/host/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc --version
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Linaro GCC 7.3-2018.05) 7.3.1 20180425 [linaro-7.3-2018.05 revision d29120a424ecfbc167ef90065c0eeb7f91977701]

mlebret · April 5, 2019, 6:55am

I use Ubuntu (Linux on Windows10).

I will look at Linaro gcc, (HowToInstall).

Emlid should made Edge arducopter compiled version available at firmware.ardupilot.org like they do for Navio family.

Thnaks,

Marc

Lucas_De_Marchi · April 5, 2019, 3:07pm

Humn… Those firmware there are built by the ArduPilot devs themselves. I will take a look on adding Edge.

mlebret · April 5, 2019, 8:20pm

Stable version should be fine.

mlebret · April 6, 2019, 7:09pm

Hello Lucas,

I downloaded Arducopter 3.6.7 for Edge from firmware repository. It is now installed and running. I will check all settings and calibration later.

Thanks,

Marc

mlebret · July 17, 2019, 7:22am

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