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Installed Open Solo on 2 of my Solo's today no problems at all Great work as usual Matt you are the man....
I'm a green cuber. Ran OS update via Solex. All good with my controller. It boots up with OS window. Solo not so much. Goes about 10 seconds into a boot and freezes. Won't pair with controller. I did rewrite the SD card per P2P's Problem Recovery Procedure to no avail. So now I have a Controller in OS and a Solo in some sort of purgatory.
Excellent, thank you Michael. The procedure outlined there is basically the kind of thing I was expecting (in fact I was thinking I'd need to flash an entire image).Hello Bruce. Here's the link to Matt's Problem Recovery. documentation/recovery.md at master · OpenSolo/documentation · GitHub
Hello Bruce. Here's the link to Matt's Problem Recovery. documentation/recovery.md at master · OpenSolo/documentation · GitHub
I tried this but somehow messed up the SD Card when I removed it from the IM6 board. I *thought* I was careful but apparently not. Removing the white glue (what is that stuff anyway?) is tougher than I first thought. When I got the card out it would not read in any system (neither linux nor windows).
I took the IM6 board from my backup Solo and put it in the system with the GC. Now the controller complains that there is a version mismatch ('natch) and an attempt to reload the copter has the INSTALL greyed out (says my system is not compatible). Does this with both the GC installed and with the old cube.
Does this mean that once OpenSolo is on the controller there is no path to update an older Solo that I'd bind to that controller?
Also I tried to go through the whole process with the controller that goes with the backup solo but it has never been flown. So it comes up and says it need the initial update from 3DR. But it won't do it, even after a full controller reset. Argh.
Oops: Posts crossed in the night! I look forward to a patch.Back at you! Hold the Presses. If you are part of the FB Mod Club and Beta Test Groups you know Matt has made a very important announcement with regard to a glitch (for lack of a better word) in how the process detects which Cube you are running. From what I gather (my pay grade is set at minimum wage) the OS upgrade will auto detect your hardware and proceed accordingly. What has happened on rare occasion is the standard cube FW is being loaded to the GG resulting in the Solo boot failure. Good news is he is developing a patch which may already be available as I write this.
Oops: Posts crossed in the night! I look forward to a patch.
Thanks for the notice.
I doubt that will do it, I think there needs to be an OpenSolo firmware update.Yup, woke up to a notice that Solex just updated to v1.5.8
I doubt that will do it, I think there needs to be an OpenSolo firmware update.
- Bruce
I have noticed that the controller gets done doing its thing a lot faster than the Solo. I have successfully loaded open solo on both stock cube and green. If Matt is working on it, it will be corrected. I don't know why it would work with some and not with others though.
Just made a post about RC2 here.
https://3drpilots.com/threads/open-solo-2-5-rc2-is-out.11542/
All detailed in the release notes which are linked from here: documentation/README.md at master · OpenSolo/documentation · GitHubI am definately very interested in doing the upgrade, but before doing it is there a list anywhere that I might read to see what the advantages of doing it will be for a non Greencube Solo? At first I thought that it was only for greencube Solo's but now I see it will work with the stock unit also.
Thanks Bill
Great thread and a huge shout out to every one involved in this project it looks very exciting indeed for the future of Solo. A very excellent tutorial video also about doing the upgrade and every one appears to be singing praise for Opensolo. I am definately very interested in doing the upgrade, but before doing it is there a list anywhere that I might read to see what the advantages of doing it will be for a non Greencube Solo? At first I thought that it was only for greencube Solo's but now I see it will work with the stock unit also.
Thanks Bill
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