2019-07-31, 05:43 PM
(2019-07-31, 01:52 PM)seandepagnier Wrote: You can use the openplotter interface remote. Pass the tinypilot ip on the terminal of openplotter:
pypilot_calibration 192.168.14.1
It is normally automatically calibrating if it can. You need to have slowly turned in most orientations to update the calibration. So to start calibration you just need to make sure it isn't locked.
Indoors and around work bench is notorious for magnetic distortions. This will greatly influence calibration and compass accuracy. It is best to calibrate on the boat by actually rotating the boat once the sensors are mounted.
Thx. Indeed I can run the calibration from openplotter remotely now, but I don't get the yellow dots yet, which, I guess, would be equivalent to a successful calibration and a cue to lock it. The green dot cloud is rather messy. I guess this is due the interaction with the power cable. I'll do this on a swing in the garden another day; the neighbours already think I'm weird.
Does this manual remote calibration not interfere with the automatic calibration that also takes place on the Tinypilot image? Can I stop the Tinypilot automatic calibration entirely, and solely rely on the remote, manual one? Or can I visualize remotely the tinypilot automatic calibration process? I want to be able to rely at all times that my compass heading is on the mark. When I see imu.compass_calibration_age set, can I conclude that it's the automtic process that did get a fix?
Running pypilot_calibration, I do get some output that suggest something's wrong. Could you cast an eye on that? See attached. I think it's a mismatch between imu.compass_calibration (in the script) and imu.compass.calibration (in tinypilot's signalk). Underscore vs dot in the parameter name.
Thx again!