iNavFlight/OpenTX-Telemetry-Widget

Still getting nil value

j-keiter opened this issue · 5 comments

j-keiter commented
  1. Be sure the OpenTX/JumperTX firmware on your transmitter includes the luac build option, video instructions linked here:
    Running Edgetx companion as root I'm able to load and flash tx16s-a55aff0.bin firmware to radio. It takes about 5s and I
    see a flashing done text. Sadly the radio boots in emergency mode. I was able to shut it off and restart but it
    loads some old firmware Oct 21 2010? I also flashed via OpenTX companion with similiar results.

I'm using Debian Linux. Trying to get the OpenTX Lua Telemetry script to execute from the /Scripts/Telemetry folder on sd card. EdgeTX 2.7.1 firmware on RadioMaster TX16S.
2) When installing Lua Telemetry, be sure to download the latest LuaTelemetry.zip linked here:
I did this.
https://github.com/iNavFlight/LuaTelemetry/wiki/Installation
I did this.
3) Another possible reason for this error is that you're trying to use other Lua scripts on the same model.
I'm not using any other LUA scripts on this model.

  1. Too many unused models.
    I deleted a few but no change. I only have 13 models.

Thanks!

j-keiter commented

When trying to flash via EdgeTX Companion 2.7.1. The flash bar moves along but then I get:
Cannot write /media/jason/RM TX16S/FIRMWARE.BIN (reason: Unknown error)
I fixed this error by runing EdgeTX Companion as root. Sadly the tranmitter booted into Emergency mode after successfully flashing. I was able to power off and back on and it seemed to revert to some old 2012 firmware file??

stronnag commented

You should open the widget from a telemetry screen, not from the filesystem.

j-keiter commented

You should open the widget from a telemetry screen, not from the filesystem.
At the 4:00 min mark in this video by RC Video Reviews, he executes the inav.lua script directly from the SYS - SDCard menu file structure. That is why I thought it should work. At 7:20 he mentions additional options when you run inav.lua as a script instead of widget. That also motivated me to try and get it working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8KZqkd29rg

stronnag commented

If you want to do that, use the same unsupported, obsolete version of the script, which will not work on EdgeTX.

Running the contemporaneous script directly from the SD Card not a supported option, regardless of what old videos might show.

j-keiter commented

So, current script is meant to be run only by the widget feature of EdgeTX and not by executing directly from Scripts folder on sd card. Would be nice to have a test that warns user when trying to run as script. Eg. "This script must be run as Widget" instead of nill value error.