Got my hands on one of these unique quadcopters.
Condition was unknown and so a risk, and it came with no battery which is a royal pain as getting batteries for this is only possible from Aliexpress.
Anyway once battery arrived , plugged it in a all fired up okay but it will not connect to the app and can now see why it came with no battery.
Got onto Powervision and they did reply back with a reset method to re bind the craft to the wifi repeater , but after many many times of trying it still wont connect.
I took the repeater apart and managed to solder on 3 wires and red the console in via UART. :-
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 11 2017 – 02:21:35)
U-Boot MI124
Wasp 1.3
DRAM: 64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 132k for U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 83fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 83fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 83fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 83f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 83f8bf98
Now running in RAM – U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xc8, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash: 8 MB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ag934x_enet_initialize…
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
wasp reset mask:c02200
WASP —-> F1 PHY *
F1Phy reg init
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
ATHR_AUTONEG_ADVERT:1DE1
ATHR_1000BASET_CONTROL:200
ATHR_PHY_CONTROL:3100
ATHRSF1_PHY: Port 0, Neg Success
ATHRSF1_PHY: unit 0 phy addr 0 eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0xb8116290 to 0x20402d0f
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
## Booting image at 9f680000 …
Image Name: Linux Kernel Image
Created: 2017-03-11 10:21:30 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 846705 Bytes = 826.9 kB
Load Address: 80002000
Entry Point: 801b5ac0
Verifying Checksum at 0x9f680040 …OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image … OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 801b5ac0) …
## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 67108864
I also managed to connect via UART to the main board on the PowerEgg craft itself and there is a socket on the main mcu board on the PowerEgg thats labeled RX/TX/ GND.
And seems its based on the Pixhawk
HW arch: PX4FMU_V2
FW git-hash: 7a6fe86bbf478c743d43244220f39cc57aadb412
Build datetime: Aug 6 2018 11:19:23
Toolchain: 4.9.3 20150529 (release) [ARM/embedded-4_9-branch revision 227977]
MCU: STM32F42x, rev. 3
UID: 48002D:3535510F:33383932
I can see on the startup console that when I do a bind it says Link Success but does not show link on repeater or app.
But what I did notice was it has loads of errors on camera like:-
pv_camera: tx error -1
So I am wondering is there a issue with video from camera and fails to link to repeater and app because of that?
Because there is no video being sent????? Or is there a fault with the repeater or the Transmitter module on the Egg itself????
I am assuming as it uses Pixhawk and Mavlink that it wont say connected until it receives
Mavlink data.
Cant really go any further on this with out another one to compare it with.
So will just be a pretty ornament on shelf for now 😉