Depth Sensor Error with Bar100

Blue Robotics Products Sensors
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Hi,

I am running into some issues with the Bar100 sensor. I swapped out the stock Bar30 sensor for the deeper rated Bar100, and and getting a 'Depth Sensor Error" message in QGroundControl periodically. This message pops up every few minutes; between the error messages, the depth readings that I see in QGroundControl seem to be fine. This error mostly manifests at surface, but does come up periodically at depth as well. I can calibrate the sensor without issue in QGroundControl.

I have read in some other topics that the “Depth Sensor Error” message is a hardware fault; however, I’ve tried two different Bar100 units and the error persits. Recalibrating the pressure sensor in QGroundControl also does not seem to solve the issue.

I am running the latest BlueOS release, on a RPi 4B. QGroundControl V.4.2.3, ArduSub is the latest available stable release.

Are there any setup steps that I may have missed going from a Bar30 to a Bar100? Any advice would be welcome.

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Hi @bsnow, welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

I’m not certain what’s going on here, so

  1. Which flight controller board are you using (e.g. Navigator / Pixhawk / Pixhawk 4)?
  2. Is Keller selected in your BARO_PROBE_EXT / GND_PROBE_EXT parameter?
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Hi

I also had this problem.

This is a problem with both PixHawk and the Navigator Flight Controller. It was a problem with both Companion and BlueOS

BARO_EXT_BUS was set to unknown - I put this into Bus0
BARO_PROBE_EXT was empty - is now set to 265 - Keller

These settings seems to fix the problem with Depth Sensor Error every 5 minuts

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After some testing i found out that the BARO_EXT_BUS needs to havel unknown value =6 or else the QGC will not recognize the depth sensor

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Hi @Hugoparty, welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

Thanks for sharing your solutions to this issue.

Note that BARO_PROBE_EXT should generally include both the 256 and 512 bits, to enable the KellerLD-based Bar100 and the MS5837-based Bar30 respectively :slight_smile:

As you found, BARO_EXT_BUS depends on the hardware being used. Thanks for mentioning that - we need to update that parameter to account for I2C 6 on the navigator.

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