ESC Calibration in Mission Planner - Raising throttle to high causes crash of Raspberry Pi2 with Navio2

Navio / Edge Flight stack
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Actually I was able to Calibrate it finally!

I didn’t realize that I had to kill the ArduPilot process and run it again after clicking on the ESC Calibration button in Mission Planner, I thought I had to restart the Raspberry PI, seems like I just had to kill the ArduPilot process. Upon doing this I was able to Calibrate it using the below steps.

My list of steps are as follows;

  1. Setup Joystick in Mission Planner
  2. Calibrate Radio (Joystick) in Mission Planner
  3. Run ArduCopter command
  4. Connect to ArduCopter using Mission Planner
  5. Click ESC Calibration Button in Mission Planner (this sets ArduCopter in Calibration mode on next run)
  6. Kill ArduCopter command
  7. Set Joystick throttle to max throttle
  8. Run ArduCopter command again (this starts in ESC Calibration mode because of step 5)
  9. Connect power to ESC & Motors
  10. Wait for 2 Beeps to confirm ESC Calibration mode
  11. Lower throttle to min throttle
  12. Wait for 1 Beep to confirm ESC Calibration settings
  13. Motors will start spinning and ESC & Motors now respond to Joystick throttle!!

So it does work, the difficulty was that I had no idea I only had to restart ArduPilot and not the entire Raspberry PI which is what confused me, the terminology used (Flight Controller meant the actual hardware itself and not ArduPilot) wasn’t very clear.

Could we get this up on the Docs perhaps to make it more clear?

Thanks!

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