I have Raspberry pi 3 + Navio2 connected to my computer via USB. According to my understanding, Windows should now automatically assign my autopilot a COM port number, that should appear in the drop-down menu in Mission Planner. My Windows does not assign any COM port numbers, no ports are visible in Device Manager.
I connected my autopilot over a netowrk using UDP port. Everything seemed to be working, but when I tried installing Firmware, the following error appeared: The given name does not start with COM/com or does not resolve to a valid serial port. Screenshot:
i’m not aware of a way of using the usb port for navio;
you need to fill in the credentials for wifi, or use an ethernet cable and point arducopter to stream telemetry to your pc - as stated in the docs!
either over wifi/ethernet or your radio!
that way you can specify your vehicle (copter/rover/plane…)!
@MKR microUSB connector on Raspberry Pi 3 is only for powering it up, there is no USB device on it as the only USB interface on RPi is connected to the USB HUB.
you could hook up a bluetooth adapter to the uart or usb and use this as serial connection.
or connect the USB from the raspberry with two serial-to-usb cables to the USB of your computer
well bt might be easier or use udp
the firmware you do not install with MissionPlanner, you need to copy it on the sd card https://docs.emlid.com/navio2/common/ardupilot/installation-and-running/
Thank you for your responses.
For some reason I thought firmware was something extra that needed to be downloaded in order to use Mission Planner. I already have arducopter and everything configured, so thanks for clearing that up!
