Flock of Birds (Only Position Tracking working? No Orientation?)

[TheLostBrain]

Fixed!

Finally had a chance to sit down with this again...and managed to get it fixed!
Figured I'd come back and share for anyone else that may wind up experiencing the same issue.


The problem was caused by the bird being in the wrong "mode".
I had previously been playing around in cbird (a dos based utility from Ascension) and the last mode I was testing was "Position".

The issue was resolved when I simply went back into cbird and chose "Position/Angles". As soon as I exited cbird and came back in to Vizard everything was working correctly.


So for those who may not know their way around cbird here are the exact key presses you'd want to do:

1. 1 (For 115200 baud)
2. 0 (For no further changes and to enter the main menu)
3. 15 (For Change Value)
4. 16 (For FBB Auto Config)
5. 2 (For the number of birds...this may be different in your case)
6. Enter Enter (To get out of the status report)
7. 5 (For Position/Angles)
8. 1 (For Continuous Point Mode)
9. N (To not save ASCII data)
10. Enter Enter (To get back to the main menu)
11. 0 (To Quit)

Once you've done this simply go back into Vizard and Run your script, etc. and everything should now be working correctly.

FYI: cbird, the user manual and everything else for the Flock of Birds can be obtained here:
ftp://ftp.ascension-tech.com/PRODUCT...k_of_Birds.zip