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    Hey guys!

    I came across a strange anomaly last week on a starling drone I have. I was missing the voxl2 SDK version/ "voxl-suite" parameter as the drone boots up.
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    I remember, the week before I use to see "1.1.2" over there. The drone was still functioning and the voxl2 was not damaged in anyway. To move to a newer release I did an update and this is what happened.

    First I did a sudo apt update, followed by sudo apt-get upgrade.
    The output of the upgrade looked like below,
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    I did as suggested, "sudo apt autoremove", and below is the list of pacRemoving qrb5165-dfs-server (0.2.0) ...

    Removing voxl-vision-hub (1.7.3) ... Removing voxl-camera-server (1.8.9) ... Removing libmodal-exposure (0.1.0) ... Removing libvoxl-cci-direct (0.2.1) ... Removing voxl-remote-id (0.0.9) ... Removing libmodal-journal (0.2.2) ... Removing qrb5165-rangefinder-server (0.1.1) ... Removing voxl-lepton-server (1.2.0) ... Removing voxl-elrs (0.1.3) ... dpkg: warning: while removing voxl-elrs, directory '/usr/share/modalai/voxl-elrs/tools' not empty so no t removed dpkg: warning: while removing voxl-elrs, directory '/usr/share/modalai/voxl-elrs/esptool/esptool/target s' not empty so not removed Removing voxl-esc (1.3.7) ... dpkg: warning: while removing voxl-esc, directory '/usr/share/modalai/voxl-esc-tools' not empty so not removed Removing qrb5165-imu-server (1.0.1) ... Removing voxl-qvio-server (1.0.0) ... Removing voxl-utils (1.3.3) ... Removing qrb5165-system-tweaks (0.2.3) ... Removing voxl-tflite-server (0.3.1) ... Removing qrb5165-tflite (2.8.0-2) ... Removing voxl-bind-spektrum (0.1.0) ... Removing voxl-camera-calibration (0.5.3) ... Removing voxl-configurator (0.4.8) ... Removing voxl-portal (0.6.3) ... Removing voxl-cpu-monitor (0.4.7) ... Removing voxl-docker-support (1.3.0) ... Removing voxl-flow-server (0.3.3) ... Removing voxl-feature-tracker (0.3.2) ... Removing voxl-gphoto2-server (0.0.10) ... Removing voxl-logger (0.3.5) ... Removing voxl-jpeg-turbo (2.1.3-5) ... Removing voxl-libgphoto2 (0.0.4) ... Removing voxl-uvc-server (0.1.6) ... Removing voxl-libuvc (1.0.7) ... Removing voxl-mavcam-manager (0.5.3) ... Removing voxl-mavlink (0.1.1) ... Removing voxl-mavlink-server (1.3.2) ... Removing voxl-modem (1.0.8) ... Removing voxl-mongoose (7.7.0-1) ... Removing voxl-mpa-to-ros (0.3.7) ... Removing voxl-neopixel-manager (0.0.3) ... Removing voxl-tag-detector (0.0.4) ... Removing voxl-px4-imu-server (0.1.2) ... Removing voxl-streamer (0.7.4) ... Removing libmodal-cv (0.4.0) ... Removing libqrb5165-io (0.4.2) ... dpkg: warning: while removing libqrb5165-io, directory '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages' not emp ty so not removed Removing voxl-mpa-tools (1.1.3) ... Removing librc-math (1.4.2) ... Removing voxl-opencv (4.5.5-2) ... kages that were removed;

    After this, the voxl2 looks like below,
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    I flashed the voxl2 with the latest SDK to revive it but in the process I lost a few setup files and containers I had installed on the drone for my work. I had to redo the setup of the drone and now everything looks operational but still it would be good to know if anybody has any ideas why the "voxl-suite" would become blank in the first place.

    Thanks!

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    @Κωνσταντίνος-Κλέων-Χριστόπουλος In that case we can't help you with SSH or WiFi, that's not our hardware

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    @Alex-Kushleyev No I didn't use the TOF sensor before, I almost directly updated the sdk.
    But what I can recall is that even on the original 1.1.1 sdk I didn't saw any point cloud on the tof_pc on voxl portal. But I thought it was because I had to set something up for it to work.
    On the version 1.2.0 I did saw once (as mention before) some point cloud appear on voxl-portal but after 3 minutes it crashed and I've never seen it since.
    The cable that come from the TOF sensor is MFPC-M0040 REV A and the adapter for the board is M0135.
    Julien

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    @achanana said in MAVSDK example program on VOXL 2 not running:

    voxl-px4-imu-server

    is for the Qualcomm Flight RB5 architecture and is not relevant to Starling

    It is likely your voxl-mavlink-server is not configured properly. MAVSDK communicates with the port opened up in voxl-mavlink-server

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