Dual GPS HERE & mRo Purple - Done!

[Peen]

Hey guys,

Posted this over in Solo Mod Club on Facebook. A couple weeks ago, I ordered a HERE and put my mRo in the drawer. Knowing my mRo is probably not worth all the much in the classifieds, I decided I should try to throw it in my Solo and get a little dual GPS blending action!

THIS REQUIRES GREEN CUBE

Happy to report, everything went smoothly! Took it out for a flight, and did everything well. RTH was within 6" of all take of spots I took off from. Hover is good, and even tried to throw it off by setting max loiter speed to 2000. I have both set up to for GPS, SBAS, Glonass and Galileo and out in my test field I get up to 27-28 satellites each. (screenshot was taken inside)

I soldered Tx and Rx points onto the Serial2 ports and then a 5v power and ground wire. Once I did that, just set new MP parameters to set up dual GPS.

If you have both GPS modules (both M8N) and you can solder, I would add this in.

 

[John Githens]

Thanks for posting. 'Dual GPS is now working for Arducopter 3.5 and higher' also has information (some threads on this forum are about using less expensive components that may not have the required capabilities).

(Info about upgrading to the Green Cube as a prerequisite to version 3.5 is on other threads on this forum, and here on ArduPilot.org.)

 

[pyrate]

just so folks know this requires the green cube

 

[Peen]

Forgot to mention that, so put it in post.