Latest QGC connection drops and interference with control on Herelink

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I have recently tried to upgrade QGC on my Herelink to the latest version using the instruction here. I have a herelink 1.0, and the standard QGC shipped is 4.08, which resulst in parameter warnings and the camera controls don’t work correctly with newer arducoper versions, so I am stuck at arducoptrer 4.1 at the moment.

At first it looked like everything had worked OK, but then when I connected to my drone - Cube Orange running arducopter 4.1 the staus was OK for a few seconds, the dropped to “connection lost”.
More worrying was that the radio connection also appeared to become unstable. Furtunately I was testing on the bench, but camera movements were smooth before but became stuttery and would hang, or stop completly, whihc made me thing something was affecting the comms link too.

Has anyone else seen similar issues and found a work around, or any pointers are very welcome?
Thanks

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You should be able to sideload (apk install) QGC 4.4.3 from here:

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Hi Julian

Thanks for replying. I did download the apk from that link and copied it to my herelink manually before installing it by double clicking on the apk.

When you say sideload, do you mean install it using adb rather than via the UI as I did previously?

I’m not as familiar with using adb as I would like so any pointers or advice you can give are very much appreciated.

If you need any more info about the behaviour I’m seeing please do ask and I will try to get a video of it when I finish work this evening.

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Just wanted to share an update. After a bit more digging I found the cause of the issues I was seeing.

The instructions over at Ardupilot that I was following mentioned that at first run the app would request permissions. This didn’t happen when I ran it, and I guess I assumed they were automatically set.

I checked the permissions settings yesterday and had to allow them manually. After that everything run perfectly so all is well now.

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Ah great, thanks for following up. I was only getting to this now.

I think both adb install or just downloading the apk on Android and installing it from there should work. I assume you have to check the “Install from unknown sources” somewhere, if it’s not set by default.