blakecole-sik-radio: updated build and installation procedure #960
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| **SiK does not currently support RFD900x or RFD900ux telemetry radios**. |
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So are you saying that you have to use non-SiK firmware, or that you can't build your own SiK firmware (ie is the RFDesign software "non-Sik" or is is just prebuilt out of band?
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Good catch -- to clarify, I believe the RFD900x/ux still uses SiK firmware (they can be queried via AT commands, just like the other radios), but these radios are not currently supported by the tools and firmware that is packaged by default in the linked SiK repository.
There is a directory (SiK/Firmware/dst) that contains firmware for the older models (.ihx files), but does not contain firmware the RFD900x/ux (which, for whatever reason, RFDesign has chosen to release as .bin files). The newer firmware can be downloaded here: http://files.rfdesign.com.au/firmware/
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OK, I've created #966 to get just this bit in for now. Hopefully Lorenz will provide advice on the rest at some point.
Thanks again for all your help.
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| - [SiK](https://github.com/ArduPilot/SiK) |
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Shoulnd't this be https://github.com/LorenzMeier/SiK ?
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I linked to the https://github.com/ArduPilot/SiK base repository because it looked like it had been updated more recently (August, 2018) than the LorenzMeier fork (last commit: July 2017). They look pretty similar though.
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@blakecole Fantastic. Looks very helpful indeed - certainly a significant improvement. I gave it a bit of a layout tidy and added a couple of questions. Let's see what @LorenzMeier says - feel free to ping me next week if he hasn't reviewed. |
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Thanks for putting this together. It’s not targeting the tooling we’re officially supporting and have tested. It’s also not aligned with the firmware auto-upgrading in QGC. This needs more work. |
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@LorenzMeier That's cool, but who can we talk to in order to "do this right"? Would you be OK at least with an intermediate version that includes the new "supported radios section" - so that at least people don't try to use it for RFD900x or RFD900ux? |
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Hi guys, I'm glad my contributions are at least partially useful. I am a total neophyte, and don't really understand the subtle nuances of the toolchain. I don't really have a dog in this fight -- if you think my edits would save folks time in the future, feel free to implement them in the documentation; if not -- no worries! Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. @LorenzMeier -- quick side question on the QGC firmware auto-upgrading feature. Is it currently operational? Does it only support certain radios? Does it fail if the pre-exisiting firmware is not supported? Reason I ask is, after I updated my firmware (using the |
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I'm replacing (closing) this with #985, which is now assigned to Lorenz - either to explain what needs to happen or to make the update. Thanks @blakecole - appreciate the help. This is linked and will be available as a resource when the final toolchain docs get done. |
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No worries, Hamish!
Cheers,
Blake Cole
Ph.D. Candidate | Mechanical Engineering
Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
… On Mar 19, 2020, at 1:42 AM, Hamish Willee ***@***.***> wrote:
I'm replacing (closing) this with #985 <#985>, which is now assigned to Lorenz - either to explain what needs to happen or to make the update.
Thanks @blakecole <https://github.com/blakecole> - appreciate the help. This is linked and will be available as a resource when the final toolchain docs get done.
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Updated SiK Radio Documentation to include caveats, build instructions, and usage instructions