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Xbee getting bricked by new Tricopter firmware #146

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Arducoper NG or ACM?
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Update to new Arducopter "Tri" firmware
2.Turn on APM and with a few seconds to a minute communiction stops, the Xbee 
gets bricked "red light of death" comes on, and I have to reprogram the Xbee.

What is the expected output?
Turn on APM, Xbee comms work, and get realtime telemetry data to GCS. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Arducopter 2.0 "TRI", Win7 64bit

Please provide any additional information below.

Also, when the xbee was working with Arducopter 2.0.3, there is/was a huge lag 
on the telemetry data to GCS. I saw someone else had alreay flaged the lag in 
data as issue, but I am having the same issue. Also it seems like every other 
line in the mission planner window, has a Mavlink error, and/or an unknown 
message with scrambled data right before the xbee gets bricked.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by robertof...@aol.com on 17 May 2011 at 2:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There are some debugging strings in there perhaps causing the Mavlink errors.

Original comment by jasonshort on 18 May 2011 at 3:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Any update on bricking issue?

Original comment by jasonshort on 28 May 2011 at 10:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I have gotten to the point of ordering a new Xbee Pro 900. I will try it as 
soon as it arrives later this week, and let you know. If the problem persists, 
or goes away.

Original comment by robertof...@aol.com on 29 May 2011 at 11:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Similar problem on Friday.  Tried to upgrade 3 xbee 900's to latest firmwaare 
with the ladyada adapter. While trying to update, each showed a message that 
com port was not working.  All three now have the red light of death.   A 
fourth one that we did not attempt to update works fine with both of our 
ladyada xbee adapters.  We tried the unbricking procedure on the 3 bricked ones 
but it did not work.

Original comment by borna.em...@gmail.com on 29 May 2011 at 12:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Ok. just now running brand new Xbee 900 Pro, and its all good. It looks like 
something in the old Xbee may have been defective.

Thanks for your help.

Original comment by robertof...@aol.com on 31 May 2011 at 10:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by jasonshort on 3 Jun 2011 at 5:15