Recent content by TimCar

This one is a big problem for me when I try to use Solex to do a simple survey. I have to use the property lines map on the Google Maps app, switch over to Solex Mission Planner and try to remember where I saw the lot lines. It would be so much easier if Solex would let us set the map type on...

No need, just do what this guy did..

I don't agree. We all need to share how to do things and editing the extSettings.conf file is the only way to get access to the new long-press features that Open Solo opened up to us. As it is now, Solex doesn't have a way to do it (yet?), and editing the file is not that hard to do. Besides...

You need to reconnect to your Solo network after you download the firmware. It gives this message if you are still connected to your Internet host.

On the new and improved 3.0 release version, it says: STOCK SOLO SPECIFIC UPDATES: The following applies only to stock solo Pixhawk cubes and does not apply to Green Cube solos. Distance based battery failsafe:... Improved landing detection:... Low battery thrust priority:... Smart shot...

Just curious - why does Solex exclude the ability to assign Smart Shots to the controller's buttons? Maybe I'm the only one but I still use the old Solo app to assign them to the A/B buttons every so often. On a bright sunny day I can easily see the artoo's display, not so much the tablet's...

Loaded on one GC and one stock Solo with no issues. Nice that we no longer have to load the GC firmware and parameters as a separate operation. The new 3.0 looked to load much faster than 2.5RCx did. Thanks for all the hard work getting this up and ready for the New Years!

Thanks for the updates to the github, all is good now and RC4 compiles fine. And yes, I do know how to update the copter and artoo manually (a bit of a pita...) It would be a nice option if Solex would allow us to pick/install our own update zips off of our phone/tablet SD card. I was just...

OK, so it looks like the github.com/OpenSolo/ code was cleaned up over the weekend and it now compiles again without any changes and without any errors. The MD5's I'm seeing are: 7379f63ec11ced8171d84b421baac447 3dr-solo.tar.gz d9a7acfdb10ea07a8e7634fb4069a41b 3dr-controller.tar.gz but I...

A quick look tells me all that should be needed is edits to the playbook.yml and updating the two mentioned bitbake's so they reference https. The playbook.yml is using the now defunct sudo: true and needs to be changed to become: true in a few places. That will fix it so...

Yes, I'll fork/clone/branch it this weekend then repair the scripts and test so they work on the 1st pass. Once I verify that fixing it on Ubuntu doesn't break it on other platforms I'll submit the changes to the OpenSolo master. The changes to the install-vagrant-deps.sh are "band-aids" to...

Old thread, but seems the best place to post this info. I was able to build the latest OpenSolo on my new install of Windows10, VirtualBox5.2.2, Vagrant 2.0.1, but I had to make a few tweaks to the install-vagrant-deps.sh file to get it to compile completely. In the install-vagrant-deps.sh...

I was watching a few of the long range Solo flights on YouTube. On one of the longest flights, the guy had one Alfa paddle and one stock "stick". I was under the impression that one side of the controller is send and the other receive. If so, wouldn't he have achieved the same 13,000+ foot...

Update: It looks like there are now 3 different possibilities with the gimbal angle buttons: short press, medium long press(~2 sec) and extra long press (>3 sec). Extra long press is not assigned to anything by default.

I just updated one of my 100% stock Solos to Open Solo RC3. I too was unable to get the compass to calibrate and will follow the instructions earlier in this thread to fix it later today. The other issue I'm having is with Artoo and the 1/2 preset buttons. If I set them once, it takes the...