Aloha Blue Buddies! It’s your boy Jacob here to drop of another round of software updates! :fire::fire:. We have updates for the whole trifecta this time: ArduSub, Companion, and QGC. In this post, I’ll describe the updates, and all of the installation instructions will follow at the end: ArduSub v…

[image] etienne: Running the update with “stable” but I get this: Downloading stable ArduSub firmware from http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Sub/stable/PX4/ArduSub-v2.px4 Stopping mavproxy Flashing Pixhawk… Loaded firmware for 9,0, size: 830240 bytes, waiting for the bootloader… Timed out tryi…

Perfect @etienne , I was coming with the advice to power cycle the system and try again. What you experienced is apparently some sort of timing issue with the autopilot bootloader.

I’m digging the new features! Everything is working fine for me, except I get a whole cascade of about 20 errors relating to GStreamer when QGC is loading. They look like this: [qgcerror] I just click OK and then QGC loads and everything seems to work fine. This is on Windows, of course. Still th…

I think I have seen this before when changing QGC versions. Try uninstalling QGC and make sure no files are left, then install it again.

Yup, uninstall/reintstall fixed it.

Question: To use v3.2.4-BlueRobotics-Rev6 and Waterlinked, what Companion version is working with that?

@Boko any companion version since the initial water linked support will work with 3.2.4-r6.

Hi, Have tried doing the software update but and after a lot of tries, I’m still getting the ‘timeout trying to catch the bootloader’ problem as described above by Etienne- have tried the reinstalling QGC, to no avail. I get a temporary solution - when I refresh the webpage it says Ardusub version…

@jwalser Hi Jacob, I am running the heavy configuration setup with all the new updates. A few questions about QGC: Each time I open QGC it tells me there is a new version available but I got the latest version v3.5.0 how do I get rid of this nag? Can I display the record button where it used to…

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