Is mpng-3.0.1-r3 working with ITG3205 Triple Axis Gyro ?
Is this IT3200 same as ITG3205?, anyway below says: Only MPU6050 supported for R2
Is support for ITG3205 included in -r3 ?

Release Notes for MegaPirateNG 3.0.1 R2 (ArduPilot 3.0.1)
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!
IT3200 gyro doesn't supported in this version!!! Only MPU6050 supported!

(MultiWii PRO_HK_RED uses ITG3205 Triple Axis Gyro)

I have flashed my MultiWii PRO_HK_RED with 2.9.1 R6 and it seems to work, but i wonder if its wise to try mpng-3.0.1-r3 ??

RCTimer V1.1 CRIUS AIOP
MegaPirateNG V3.0.1.R2

Hello Sir Alex:

I tested loiter with settings from last night that I had posted in rcgroups and again quad drifts and shoots up.

1. Erased eprom
2. Perform all calibrations
3. Changed Loiter PID from 1.0 to 0.5 per Arducopter warning
4. Left all other PID settings at their defaults
5. Performed a compassmot which resulted in less then 30% change

Tested loiter again. Same thing

1. Erased eprom
2. Perform all calibrations
3. Turned off auto declination and entered settings manually
4. Changed Loiter PID from 1.0 to 0.5 per Arducopter warning
5. Left all other PID settings at their defaults
6. Performed a compassmot which resulted in less then 30% change

Tested loiter again. Did a little better but still does this:

1. Engage loiter
2. Drops about a foot
3. Motors speed up
4. Rises a few feet and hovers a few seconds
5. Drops a little
6. Rises a few feet and keeps going and maybe stops to hover a few seconds

The baro is covered with foam and a small piece of black plastic is atop of the foam. All loiter tests are done at night.

In mission planner, the altitude starts with a negative number and fluctuates with the quad sitting still on the floor. What is the best way to really test the baro. I ran the test through the CLI and it read 0.0000m something on every line.

It never did anything like this in previous firmwares. Either I have a bad baro/crius or this firmware does not like me

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jose

I have just started to fly my quad after finishing the config. My first flight did not go so well. As soon as it took off i did a small circle and then suddenly the quad flipped up side down and broken one of the props off. My second flight did not go so well. Pretty much the same thing happened it went up and then flipped sideways and unfortunately the prop did not brake but the end of the quads arm snapped off. I am wondering if this is just bad luck or does the Crius board running ardupilotmpng need some calibration i have not done.
I have now strapped the quad to a board to test it and all looks good. Please Could someone help me. :(

First time with a quad and it is not going so well.

SetUp:

4* Keda 20-28M 15A 1050Kv Hacker Style Brushless
4* HobbyWing 40Amp Pentium Speed Controller
Gens Ace 3300 25C 3S Lipo Battery
F450 Quadcopter Frame (similar to DJI Flaming wheel)
Crius All In One Pro Flight Controller V2

I have the HC-SR04 ultrasonic module on the crius AIO v2 and I'm trying to mess with your code to try make it work but no luck :/
On your 2.9.1b addons it works good but I have the mottor twitch bug :/ today throttle was at 0% and when disconnecting the battery it ripped the flesh out of my fingers :( now back to 2.8r3...
Can you help please?

The Min/Max values of radio are 0 and 3000, also there is no RC radio input detected. No way can do RC Radio Calibration.

I am using HK_RED_MULTIWII_PRO

I'm loosing OSD signal when flying in LOITER. It dosn't happen in STABLE or ALT HOLD.

Check this video: http://youtu.be/LciUs0ZwbqM

• AIO PRO V1 rctimer
• On-Screen Display OSD Board MinimOSD APM Telemetry to APM 1 and APM 2 (v0.1) from goodluckbuy
• Crius CN-06 GPS Receiver v2.0 Module from goodluckbuy

Everything else seams to works just fine, perfectly actually. The LOITER in incredible precise. Only 2 flights so far.

Latest arduplane firmware. Compass doesn't work until I do restart with onboard button. Then everything goes okay until power disconnect. While trying to connect with USB, board restarts itself, and everything works OK.

Board connected with USB,
Telemetry and GPS connected.

I bet it's a software problem. Something like compass have not enough time to power up before MEGA asks it. After button reset, compass already works, and MEGA gets correct reply.

Sorry for bad english. Thanks a lot

I use witespys ez3 pro board which provides nice small connections for your 8 motor outputs.

This works great with multiwii but MPNG uses different outputs for motor 7 and 8 which causes problems for me.

I looked in the code but i'm to stupid to change it myself.

So i would suggest either change the default MPNG motor output for motor 7 and 8 to D9 and D10 (instead of D11 and D12) or a switch based on Board Type.

I'm not sure why D11 and D12 is used anyway.

Here is a picture of the witespy board i'm talking about:

Thanks

Does anyone know where the config is for a quad copter that pulls to the left or right.

I fly with megapirate 2.9.1 and a PIRATES_DROTEK_10DOF_MPU board.
with this version, I can not use it anymore ?
Or there is something to do ?

Olivier

When I select Crius V1 and try to compile I get error msg's about dataflash. I'm pretty sure the Crius V1 does not have dataflash, so how do you disable this so Arduplane 2.76 will compile? I checked Arducopter and this will compile fine with the same board selected.

Many thanks,
Sykick

I've made some further tests today, it was windy and LOITER went crazy with 7 or less sats. Later, when I had over 9-10 sats everything went smooth again.

Also, loosing GPS FIX in LOITER causes the quad to bank and fly away at max speed.
(GPS FS is set to off).

Id like to display the vibrations of my quad. Set the Log bitmask to Default+IMU in Advanced Params screen and went to fly. After flight i tried to download my log with terminal. The log screen shows:
?
Commands:
logs
setup
test
reboot
help
ArduCopter-MPNG V3.0.1 R2] logs
ArduCopter-MPNG V3.0.1 R2] exit
ArduCopter-MPNG V3.0.1 R2] logs
ArduCopter-MPNG V3.0.1 R2]

I cant choose anything at "download these logs"
Using Mission Planner 1.2.81
Crius AIO V2
MPNG V3.0.1 R2

Is there something i did wrong?
Do I have to enable something like a global logging?

Thanks!

Greetings,
I cannot seem to get the compass to work properly in version 3.0.1R2. The yaw angle does not reflect the correct heading, it just slowly drifts. Everything was working fine with version 2.8R3 loaded. As a test, I reloaded version 2.8R3 and everything worked. The hardware is the RCTIMER CRIUS AIOP V2 board.

Here is a list of some of the compass parameters and values:
COMPASS_LEARN = 0
COMPASS_USE = 1
COMPASS_ORIENT = 0
COMPASS_AUTODEC = 1
COMPASS_OFS_X = 275
COMPASS_OFS_Y = 100
COMPASS_OFS_Z = 340

Any help would be appreciated,

Bob

Hello,

Today I've uploaded ardupilot-mpng-mpng-3.0.1-r3 to my quad for some testing - I was using MegaPirateNG_2.8 R3 until now with quite good alt_hold performance.

What I have noticed is very inaccurate altitude reading in the flight data panel. Altitude changes are about ~20meters. I checked baro condition directly from the terminal and it looks fine (~2meters). I decided to make some test flight to see if altitude is only wrongly presented in "HUD" or it is really affecting flight - unfortunately it is.
My quad made some very big jumps as soon as I triggered loiter.

I made further check at home and it looks like there is some problem during altitude calculation based on the pressure.
During short test I noticed about 0,2hPa pressure differences and about 20m difference in altitude at the same time.
In my geographical location 1hPa change should cause about 10m altitude change.

I have uploaded logs from Mission Planner to DropBox - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/00iqyhrzpndggc8/wPIoU96J9i
You can replay them to see last indoor test.

Br,
Andrzej

There is something to do to access to HMC5883L i2c on Crius AIOP v2?

i ran the Ap_compass example but no luck, write is ok but read nothing
scanning i2c bus only the baro and the imu appears.

I know you have the schematic of this board and know a lot about, so i hope you can give me some pointers to understand better this nice board.

Is the compass attached directly to the imu or if i can't scan it mean simply my compass is not working?

one more question about the board where can i find the portmapping of the crius?

I appreciate very much your work!
Thanks,
Michail

the boud rate on seral2 GPS is still 38400 even if I change it to 115200.
I solved the probem by changing the gps speed to 38400.

Hi,

i want to discuss the possibility / the need to create some kind of automatic build server and repository to provide the users with pre compiled hex files to flash firmware to their board.

Stuff we should discuss:

• Is there a need for this
• Is it feastable (there are a lot of different boards/rc input/frametype configurations in mpng)
• Is it possible throu the default load custom firmware method of the missionplanner
• Either its not possible via missionplanner or it is better to create a GUI tool for avrdude to flash the images. (like kkflash tool but for mpng)

CRIUS AIOP 1.1. MPNG 3.0.1 R2.
Loiter and AltHold turns does not maintain altitude.

It'is known bug in AC 3.0.1. How can I fix It at MPNG ?

I have wired in my motors after configuring my radio through mission planner, but nothing is happening. My motors beep for a bit then stop.

If your board hang when you increasing Throttle in armed state (Looks like motors switch off when you pass 30-40% of throttle).
Please, post here this information:

1. MPNG version:
2. Board type (RCT Crius v1,v2, HK... etc):
3. ESC type
4. RC Receiver type and how you connected it to board (PPMSUM, PWM):
5. How you power board(ESC, BEC...):
6. What also you connected to board (OSD, modem...)
7. If any logs(I'm prefer from board if available), video available, please post it here:

Hi,

thank you very much for that great release of MPNG 3.0.1. R2! I have two questions concerning this version:

1. How do I disable the internal compass on my Crius AIO Pro V2 board?

2. Where can I change and see the baud rates? In particular, I want to change the bluetooth rate to 115200bps.

Best regards

Andreas

Trying to complile MPNG 3.0.1 R2 and getting this error:
system:208: error: cannot convert 'AP_GPS_UBLOX

Selecting any other protocol like:
GPS_PROTOCOL_NMEA, GPS_PROTOCOL_MTK or even GPS_PROTOCOL_NONE causes same compilation error "cannot convert 'AP_GPS_XXX ()()' to 'GPS' in assignment"

I CAN complie ArduCopter if define GPS_PROTOCOL_AUTO, but my ublox GPS doesn't work.

Similat issue by SirAlex;) :
ArduPilot/ardupilot#477

HK Red Multiwii pro board - AC 3.1-rc4 - Mission Planner 1.2.84 build 1.1.5044.12328

I have configured the code correctly, erase and reset from Terminal and calibrated compass, accelerometer and radio.. gps works properly ...

how to ARM the card via radio or via mission planner, the card crash, and crash mission planner ...
after a few seconds the message:
"errore: no response from MAV"

the card works correctly with version 2.9...

Hi SirAlex,

I have this (Multiwii and Megapirate AIO Flight Controller w/FTDI (ATmega 2560) V2.0) running on firmware 3.1R4, first setup is ok, after that i try it said PreArm: Bad GPS Pos!

May i know what i have to do?

I know Alex or someone is working on a fix for the LEDs, but here is a temp fix I've used since 2.8r2. Added it to 3.0.1r2 and it works OK.

Crius v1.0 and v1.1 only have pins A0-A5. These boards have pins 34 and 35 available.
Note the Crius v2.0 was corrected and has A0-A7, and the pins 34 and 35 have no
connector; just a solder pad.

This fix will use the pin 35 for connection of external LEDs to indicate the copter is
armed.

Modifies:
ArduCopter.ion
Config.h
Leds.ino
Motors.ino
System.ino

tb patches and config changes

For external LEDs,
in config.h

define A_LED_PIN 13

define B_LED_PIN 31

define C_LED_PIN 30

//tb 10/19/2013 use pin 35 on Crius for external status pin A

define A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL 35

in leds.ino
// set arming led from arming_light flag
if(ap_system.arming_light) {
digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN, LED_ON);
//tb 10/19/2013 patch to use Crius pin 35
digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL, LED_ON);

    }else{
        digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN, LED_OFF);
        //patch to use crius pin 35
        digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL, LED_OFF);

    }
}else{
    // armed
    if(!ap_system.arming_light) {
        ap_system.arming_light = true;
        digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN, LED_ON);
        //patch to use pin 35
        digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL, LED_ON);

in motors.ino
// update leds on board
update_arming_light();
//tb patch to use external LEDs on Crius pin 35
digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL, LED_ON);

in system.ino
// setup IO pins
pinMode(A_LED_PIN, OUTPUT); // GPS status LED
digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN, LED_OFF);
//tb patch to use Crius pin 35 for external LEDs
pinMode(A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL, OUTPUT); // Set external pin 35 to drive LED
digitalWrite(A_LED_PIN_EXTERNAL, LED_OFF);

*/

After writing my small documentation for my ArduPlane fork (https://github.com/smurfy/ardupilot-mpng/wiki/ardupilot-mpng-fork-for-arduplane)

I thought about creating the same for ArduCopter. I'm thinking about creating a separate repository for documentation.

Ideas / Thoughts:

• Only document MPNG releated stuff, everything else with a link to the offical ardupilot documentation
• Use separate git repository (allows users to contribute to documentation but with some kind of approval concept via pull requests)
• I would use http://pages.github.com/ with maybe a custom domain

i have gy-86 imu board that has mpu 6050, hmc5883l and bmp180.
i cant choose AP_BARO_BMP085_PIRATES parameter for my baro sensor, is there anyway to setup my imu for your last firmware.

thanks in advance.

Hi,
I just uploaded MPNG3.0.1R2 to my HK board and my RC is not recognized anymore. I flew successfully with MPNG2.9 and now this issue occurred when I tried to switch to 3.0.1. I used Arduino 1.0.3 and Mission planner 1.2.72mav1.0.

Is there anything I have to change on the hardware if I switch from AC2.9 to AC3.0.1?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Sven

When i start up my quad it beeps once then starts beeping and never stops.

I updated my CRIUS V1.1 to 3.0.1.R2 following the instructions and also updated MP to V1.2.79. I cannot arm the quadcopter nor do the scroll bars move in the rc calibration screen.

To test all out, I went back to V2.9.1 and am now able to arm the quadcopter again and perform an rc calibration via MP.

I am using a 9X with a FrSky module.

Add support for ITG3200 and BMA180 sensors in MPNG 3.0.1

GPS: No GPS

Loaded ArduCopter-MPNG V3.0.1 R3b on HK_RED_MULTIWII_PRO.

define MPNG_BOARD_TYPE HK_RED_MULTIWII_PRO

define SERIAL2_BAUD 115200

define GPS_PROTOCOL GPS_PROTOCOL_NMEA

Is this the correct configuration for the above module ?

I am not sure, that this is a bug. But just want to let you know about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIeZitn_yLY

I brang magnet close to AIO PRO v2.0

Firmware: latest MegapirateNG MegaPirateNG 3.0.1 R2

Is it O.K.?

Pay attention on red LED. It stops blinking after magnet near compass.

Dear,

I've loaded the V3.0.1 R3b on to my AIO V1.1 and it is working fine.
I do have a strange issue with loiter, which might be a parameter problem also.
Here it is:
When in loiter and facing into the wind, loiter is spot on, it does not move. Also RTL into the wind is great, it climbs to desired height flies to the take off point and land.

However when the quad is sideways into the wind I get toilet bowl effect after a few seconds which gets worse and have to switch back to stab.
Same issue when trying RTL

Any hints on what could be the cause or checks to be done?
Magnetic decl is set, auto compass is disabled, compass calibration is done.

Thank you

I successfully compiled and uploaded 3.0.1 R3 on HK_RED_MULTIWII_PRO, but it does not boot and no response on LEDs (GREEN, BLUE, RED).

noob alert.
I came across this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42HnOx-4s-4, while googling for clues as to why my quads maiden flight went so badly wrong and it seems to fit my experience. So just wondering if this stability patch is implemented in megapirateng 3.0.1 R2?

my quad is similar to the flite test wooden h quad but with crius aiop v2 fc. using plush 30 esc and dt750 motors, 11x4.7 props. Still waiting for gps and telemetry kit.

Thanks for reading,
Ed.

I Use the HobbyKing AIOP (Crius AIOP v1.1 clone) and have issues with pin D11 output. (RC10)
I opened a issue with SSG camera servo mix stabilization, found and implemented a custom code that works (perfectly might I add) , however while testing it, I ran into problems.
When selecting what RC output to use Servo, only RC12 + RC8 controls the 2 servos correctly.

The original camera gimbal pins obviously do nothing.
When using the suggested RC11(D12) + RC10 (D11), Stabilization works (both modded and original code) however RC10(D11) has a pause every 2-3 seconds in servo control and sudden random movement for another 2-3 seconds, after this random movement stabilization works again for another 2/3 seconds and the process repeats. (both in original tilt/roll code as does it have this problem with my modded code)

D6(RC6?), D9(RC?), D10 (RC?) and RC10 (D11) are unusable the only way to have 2 servo/brushless gimbal axis working is to connect to RC8 (D8) i'm aware pins D9 and D10 are used for the sonar but i wanted to test the outputs anyway!

What seems to be the problem controlling the "original" camera pins? (D44/D45 on HK mega red - 44/45 on HK Crius AIOP v1.1 clone.) I've read about BAD experience with these pins, so does the jitter in those outputs make camera footage unusable still? Is it a possibility for future releases to bring them back?

Is it possible to maybe offload the camera code onto a secondary arduino board so PWM pins CAN be used there? (Like for instance a Arduino Pro Mini)
A serial output of attitude of the FlightController (raw MPU output maybe) can be decoded and some math can be applied on the 2nd arduino board. This would be the best (cheapest) solution IMHO. you can even get brushless drivers in the exact same dimensions of a Arduino Pro mini, so if this is possible a lot of people will be pleased if this can be made to work. Just my $0,02. :)

Board is HK MultiWii Pro + MTK and now is MPNG2.9_R5 installed.
have problem by using MPNG3.0.1_R2: MissionPlanner read parameter list failed. Stoped after : "Got Parameter ACRO_BALL_PITCH" and green bar about 50%.

Could any one give me instructions on how to install mission planner on a linux machine?

I keep getting "Bad Compass Health" pre-arming check error when trying to arm my copter. I've done all of the calibrations and the compass appears to be reading correctly. I've also disabled the prearm checks. So far I've had no luck getting it past this error though. Any suggestions or thoughts?

I've also attempted to completely disable the compass. Same result.

AIOP V2 with 3.0.1 R2. Accel calibration keeps failing. Artificial horizon moves normally on data screen.

Thank you.

will gimbal also supported for crius V2 (44/45/46) ?

It is the older type with 6 wires.
I do have a red LED and an alternating blue LED, meaning it sees satts.

But how do I let know the FC that a GPS is connected?
With earlier versions it was easy: Just do it in Arduino (in config.h unless I'm wrong) but I do not see that option any longer.

I am totally confused...

...Sorry, I solved it already.

Just to start off with Please Help. Right, I have installed the firmware on to the Crius board via the instruction on the megapirateng.com page of how tos. I managed to get every thing correctly configured and when i got to the radio config section none of my radio inputs were displayed on the mission planner software. If you need any photos of my set-up just let me know.

Thank You

"If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem"

More jokes to come every time someone gets me that closer to joining the copter society

I'm running a HK AIO pro V2 with ArduCopter-MPNG V3.0.1 R2 on a F450 quad, I seem the now have everything loaded/configured/calibrated but still must be missing something.

At power up my simonk flashed esc's give a three tone signal and then after a pause give a single beep every three seconds or so and the motors wont respond to the throttle.

Custom SERIAL2_BAUD is not being used by system.pde on line 101 resulting in no gps fix if baud rate set to anything other than 38400.

Current
hal.uartB->begin(38400, 256, 16);
Fix
hal.uartB->begin(SERIAL2_BAUD, 256, 16);

On the new(er) MultiWii 2.1 and up there's a great working code for simple and cheap camera stabilization.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1793759&page=9

The code should be quite simple:
It would be the same code one would use to stabilize a delta-wing aircraft, since that code is implemented in arduplane to stabilize elevons, It should be a mere copy paste and change inputs/outputs.

(elevon mixing code can be found @ arduplane/attitude.pde line 469 and down)

I/we really want that code to be running to camera gimbal servo outputs. (and camera roll/tilt as input)

In short: my question is, can there be a additional camera stabilization mode, with the code behind elevon mixing stabilization?

Can not find the possibility to get the shutter working. Is it not supported?

Hi,

I set up my Arduino and Sketch like it was written in the manual from megapirateng.com.
But after a few seconds during the compiling I get the message:
"MAVLINK_MSG_ID_MISSION_WRITE_PARTIAL_LIST was not declared in this scope" or sometimes there's something with "run_cli".

Please help me!