Hi All
Having some trouble getting my newly-assembled Heavy kit to work properly. Quadruple-checked that all wiring is correct, running newest versions of QGC, companion and ArduSub software. Vehicle powers on, I get telemetry and video, but also get a constant “no IO heartbeat” error. Looked that up, usual cause is corrupted SD card on Pixhawk, so I pulled it out and reformatted it, did not help. QGC seems unhappy, crashes now and then, can’t seem to reconnect to vehicle after it reboots or otherwise loses the connection, have to power cycle the vehicle to reestablish. The new ESCs are beeping, but can’t configure them because no motor commands work, either on motor test page or armed/manual joystick commands. Lights and camera mount do work, so the Heavy default params did get loaded and work. Using Windows at the moment but will try with Ubuntu to see if that helps somehow. Anybody else have a very confused vehicle after it woke up from its Heavy transplant surgery?
Just checked on things again. Did get the motor tests to work and vehicle responded to joystick input for a time, but after disarming once, it never came back. Interestingly, when I look at the console while the vehicle is armed, I see the following streaming down the page as fast as possible:
After disarming, that whole business stops, and concludes with an error/notification message mentioning the same file, MotorComponent.qml. I will have a look in there and see what that’s all about.
[later]
Took a look in MotorComponent.qml and it seems like some of the logic surrounding the arming switch on that page is messed up… code for a slider named allSlider is commented out, but then is referenced later in an un-commented out section, and there’s a Timer block starting at line 258 that doesn’t seem to stop running even after the user has left the motor controls page, hence all those references from line 266.