Can you test it with arducopter firmware on both CAN 1 and CAN2 ports individually with dual here3+ gnss configuration.
Do you have Mini carrier board?
I m very curious to get test results on mini carrier board.
One of my friend drone also facing similar issue with mini carrier board and dual here3+ .
i think you too had same issue where it hided by not changing flight mode to GPS aided mode like loiter, guided or auto etc…there have been Multiple failsafe function was triggered which may be the reason you could not able to see the GPS not healthy issue. when you clear all the failsafe function then you came to know the actual error still present.
here is your GPA delta for both gps and you can see the GPS 2 is not maintain the GPS2_RATE_Ms = 200 ms.
Try to improve the GPA.Delta by setting
GPS_GNSS_MODE,5 or GPS_GNSS_MODE,65 by limiting the constellations to two.
If you have SBAS then also add that, usually only in USA.
I was also used that one too in here3+ .
I have also been experiencing this issue with duel here3+ along with a cube orange+ with a standard carrier board. If the two GPSs are plugged into different ports there is no problem, but if they are plugged into the same port then I have the not healthy issue.
I noticed that in the UAVCAN inspector the UAVCAN_EQUIPMENT_GNSS_FIX2 would often fall below 5Hz for the node ID of 121 as shown here:
To eliminate any chance it is a flight controller or mission planner issue I used a slcan tool and the Drone CAN gui to inspect the bus by subscribing to the message. I found that most of the time the message comes through at 5 Hz, but there are spurts where messages stop coming through and you can see the time delta of the messages is higher than expected. (they should be at 200000).
Finally I checked the Bus monitor to see if I could see what was causing it. I found that there were missing frames on the uavcan.equipment.gnss.Fix2. The missing frames were causing the message to not be decodable. See the message: “Transfer could not be decoded: EOT not found”. This was only ever happening on the uavcan.equipment.gnss.Fix2 message sent from the GPS with node ID 121. The other thing to note is that it happens quite a few times in succession when it does happen. I have screenshots of 3 successive incidents of this happening. The fact that it only every happens on the one message from the one node makes me pretty sure it is not a problem with the tool.
This leads me to believe that the problem could be happening in 2 places:
The one thing I am pretty sure of is that it is not just a problem with the mini carrier board.
Unfortunately at this time I don’t have time to dig into this much further and I am hoping I can get some help with this. @philip any idea on who can help?
Yes i also came to know that its not mini carrier board issue.
@ceng what a debug process you have done here to explain the issue on Here3+.
We are all hope on @philip let see this and solve the issue.
Please confirm terminator status on both here3+
The issue is related to over termination, as Here3+ has terminators enabled by default, and old firmware we haven’t had an option to disable the terminators. I have pushed a new Here3+ beta firmware where its added to the parameter and set to off by default. Please use Mission Planner to update the firmware (select Beta) and see if it fixes your issue. @ceng @Kalai_Selvan . You should see the firmware version to be 1.10 after update.
@sidbh thank you for your clarification and fix towards the issue on the Here3+ Gps .
If i upload the beta firmware then terminator will disabled by default or we have to manually disable the parameter.
If yes what will the parameter name if that?
After working on this issue last month with @ceng, we found that FDcan also allows this error message to go away. However, the GPS units cannot be taken out of FDmode. Is there a way to factory reset the GPS units which are in FDcan mode, in order to update them to the new beta software?
The issue is discussed here:
EDIT: It looks like the GPS that was switched was simply D.O.A, as it never got sats with any software. The GPS was switched for a new one, and the new firmware successfully let us turn off the terminating resistor and removed the Bad Health message
The updated GPS cannot get a fix anymore.
@ceng and I use two GPS units in series, and updated the middle GPS to the new firmware to remove the terminating resistor. We then calibrated the GPS units.
After applying the firmware update to 1.1, the GPS health issue goes away, but the GPS no longer gets a fix. Here is an image of the parameters:
We took out the regular GPS and tried to run the Updated GPS (FW 1.10) by itself, and it was still unable to find satellites.
Does something else have to be changed in the parameters due to the new firmware?
@sidbh i have just carry out the HERE3+ firmware update as you said but seems after FW update also appears same version as previous.
i think after updated HERE3+ with latest Beta version solved the issue.
@CjF @ceng regarding the Here3+ that’s not getting fix. Can you let me know how recently was it purchased. Also if you get a chance, there is a feature in new firmware that allows you to connect u-center and you can list SVINFO and other settings which can give further insight. You can follow the steps here Here 4 Manual - CubePilot
The GPS module in Here3+ is M8P not F9P so just the firmware update bit will be different rest of the connection process should be same.
Yes …we have to do and repeat the process N number of time to get it work firmware update correctly.
Regarding connected through the U- center i have followed Here3+ manual.
Manual says set pass through parameter to appropriate number like 0 ,1 and 2.but when i see Here3+ parameters i couldn’t find what parameter I have to use it for to connect U center.
Because manual parameters and original here3+ parameters are not similar.
@sidbh The GPS was purchased in a batch of 24 in April of this year, and so far 2 of the GPS units have been unable to get any satellites right out of the box. I believe @ceng is in communication with someone about the first one, but a second one was just found last week during this troubleshooting we described.
I connected to U-Center using the method you linked, but no data was coming through. There is an initial burst of null values that come in at initial connection, but they never repeat. It’s as if there is nothing running on the GPS part of the unit, only the compass. I have attached an image of the null values below:
I believe this is a separate issue, not related to the Dual GPS, so it may be best to move the discussion to another thread or a direct support channel, please let me know what you prefer
@Kalai_Selvan I think you are using wrong instructions, you are following instructions for Here3 GPS which are different to Here3+/Here4 instructions. Please follow these instructions to connect to U-Center Here 4 Manual - CubePilot
