Setup Pypilot motor controller with MacArthur HAT

[braydengirard]

So today I received my pypilot motor controller and tried to set it up using this tutorial: https://github.com/pypilot/workbook/wiki...Controller

Connected the controller to 12V supply, ok

But when I tried to connect to the Rpi UART0, i see that it's already used by MAIANA. Acording to MacArthur HAT docs, UART3 and UART5 are also used (or can be used) by NMEA0183 connections.

So I tried to enable UART4 which aparently use GPIO 8 (CE0_N) and 9 (MISO). By doing so, i see that a new device appears as "ttyAMA1", but when I change the Pypilot app to "Enable autopilot" instead of "IMU only", i get the warning  saying "The device /dev/ttyAMA0 in UART0 should be added to the list of serial ports pypilot manages":



But even if I add an alias to ttyAMA1, and go to Pypilot Serial settings and add that device, the same message stays there



I have no idea what i'm doing wrong or how can I start to diagnose, any help will be much appreciated

Could I ask for a picture of how you connected the serial connection from the motor controller to the MacArthur hat? I am having a hard time understanding where the Red, Black, Blue and Green wires should be connected on the MacArthur Hat. I have been messing around with a combination of the black and red in the 1wire 3v header and the green and blue in the NMEA 0183 TX / RX ++ -- and +- and I can not seem to get the motor controller to be recognized. I have had solid red lights on the motor controller, solid red and solid yellow, and also a flashing green TX light on the MacArthur hat. But no matter what I do I can't seem to get pypilot to recognize the motor controller.

Thanks!