Greetings from the steep learning curve. I’m setting up my first Arduplane while learning Linux on my first AP (BBBlue) with my first GCS (Mission Planner) on Windows 10, for use in a custom vessel. Practically speaking, it’s been a recipe for delayed gratification, uncomfortably akin to a monkey with a typewriter.
I now have blue-arduplane running on the Bone (sudo /usr/bin/ardupilot/blue-arduplane -C udp:192.168.8.132:14550 -B /dev/ttyO5 with telemetry reporting via wifi to my Windows 10 laptop, but no signal arrives from the GPS (booted, with flashing blue led). My GPS is a generic ublox neo-M8n (with compass), plugged into the GPS jst-sh (wired according to attached jpeg). Windows Device Manager reports ublox Virtual Com Port on COM5.
I’m guessing the GPS needs to be further configured, i.e., I need to either download/install or create a new ublox-M8 configuration file. I’ve installed u-center to configure the GPS; u-center reports nothing. That feed seems to imply/require a Passthrough connection in Mission Planner while running blue-arduplane) so, in the Flight Data screen, ctrl-F:
- It’s unclear whether the “MAVSerial pass” button is activated on click (doesn’t toggle color, just grays temporarily on rollover & click).
- u-center 8.25 doesn’t detect GPS on any port. Tried also creating a TCP connection in u-center through Network Connection, New, setting Address to tcp://localhost:500, set baud to 38400 (with and without AutoBaud) after which I get a Connection Error message.
I then installed minicom on the Bone. When I run “dmesg | grep tty” I get:
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyO0,115200n8 root=UUID=1b96dc8c-4e92-4f4f-86de-36d769439063 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait coherent_pool=1M net.ifnames=0 quiet cape_universal=enable
[ 0.002863] WARNING: Your ‘console=ttyO0’ has been replaced by ‘ttyS0’
[ 2.492065] 44e09000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x44e09000 (irq = 158, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 2.505478] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 2.506866] 48022000.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x48022000 (irq = 159, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 2.507975] 48024000.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x48024000 (irq = 160, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 2.509094] 481a6000.serial: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x481a6000 (irq = 161, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 2.510109] 481a8000.serial: ttyS4 at MMIO 0x481a8000 (irq = 162, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 2.511416] 481aa000.serial: ttyS5 at MMIO 0x481aa000 (irq = 163, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 9.819121] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
[ 9.831852] systemd[1]: Created slice system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
In Minicom I took a blind whack at setting Serial Port ttyS5 (and ttyS4) to 38400 Baud, 8N1 and Hardware control on/off, to my chagrin, no effect on the non-existent GPS connection. U-center still can’t connect, so I can’t configure the GPS…if that’s what i need to do. Minicom reports the port’s values have been changed, but “dmesg | grep tty” reports the same as above, unchanged. I’ve also tried using the -B /dev/ttyS5 alternative for GPS when starting blue-arduplane. At this point it occurs to me that I could’ve steered wrong repeatedly, or just missed a step.
If you know what you’re doing, by now it’s probably clear that I don’t. Helpful hints anyone?
