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I am curious if and how this Raspberry Pi can be retrofitted into an existing ROV2? Ervan

[image] Ervan Garrison: I am curious if and how this Raspberry Pi can be retrofitted into an existing ROV2? A Raspberry Pi 4B by itself is very easy to fit in - it just replaces the existing Raspberry Pi 3B and can have all the connections the same. If you mean putting in a Navigator as well…

I suspected it was a swap-out. I am somewhat cautious about swapping out the Pixhawk but if the Navigator is a better option, we’ll consider it along the Pi. Thanks.

Some slight caveats the RPi4 requires BlueOS (Companion won’t work), and I’m unsure whether it would need some kind of heat sink or fan. I imagine that’s not strictly required (since the RPi3 doesn’t use one, and it’d be running the same software), but we do use a heat sink with Navigator so it m…

I upgrades to the Navigator and everything seams to be working except the nmea injector. I also posted on the cerulean forum aswell any suggestion?

Another question I have is ping 1D isn’t streaming its data as a rangefinder like it did for the pick hawk is there a way to get the ping 1D data with the navigator

Hi @CUIS , [image] Aaron Snyder: I upgrades to the Navigator and everything seams to be working except the nmea injector. Glad it’s mostly working well :slight_smile: Which part of the NMEA injector is not working as expected? [image] Aaron Snyder: Another question I have is ping 1D isn…

Noting that there’s now a Navigator Retrofit Guide for people with an existing Pixhawk + Raspberry Pi 3B BlueROV2 :slight_smile: Thanks to @DanielG_BR for all the hard work!

[image] Eliot: Indeed - I’d recommend you take a look through the feature comparison table on the BlueOS release post, which mentions that for the Ping Sonar devices I did read the chart but with Blue OS and the Pixhawk the ping 1d works and I can get the data from: http://192.168.2.2:6040/m…

[image] Aaron Snyder: I did read the chart but with Blue OS and the Pixhawk the ping 1d works and I can get the data from: http://192.168.2.2:6040/mavlink/vehicles/1/components/1/messages/RANGEFINDER/message/distance That seems doubtful, since rangefinder messages are not implemented yet in …

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