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USB connect not working
« on: January 17, 2025, 02:03:35 am »
For years this has worked fine, now suddenly today it no longer seems to connect - I dont see the red and green bars in the UI. I hear the connect bleeps, and something indicates USB is connected. But it is not communicating.
I tried two different computers and two different planes and two different USB cables. None now work.
I plugged in USB drives and they work fine.
Has there been some change in antivirus that might stop this?
Norton on my main machine complained about the code, but I added an exception and now its allowed. But it still doesnt communicate. Any tips to track this down?
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Re: USB connect not working - fixed
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2025, 05:54:37 am »
I "fixed" it. It WAS the Norton 360 antivirus software. Apparently a new release blocked librepilot. I manually set an app permission for the librepilot .exe file which changed 3 settings - Ransomware protection - do nothing, Safecam - allowed, browser data protection - do nothing. If you set all 3 to do nothing, it doesnt seem to want to save the rule!! But this worked - PROVIDED - that i plus in the USB FIRST, let it go through its connection beeps, THEN start librepilot.
Whew!!

Re: USB connect not working - fixed
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2025, 04:38:10 am »
Glad you got it fixed and sorry to be so late.
I dont come by here very often any more and when I did a few days ago my mouse was broken so I only had a keyboard tab key for navigation.
I this an OpLink you were talking about?  :)

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Re: USB connect not working
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2025, 06:33:31 pm »
I dont check in here often either. Its a shame, librepilot is actually great and tremendously useful software.
No, it was the normal USB connection into the flight controller.
As it turns out, the Norton Antivirus software on my field laptop just would not stop blocking, no matter what settings I tried, despite spending several hours on the phone with Norton. As it doesnt have a normal connection to the internet anyway, I ended up deleting the Norton software, and then things worked fine. There's always Microsofts antivirus built in anyway. My other laptop it does work with the settings I described. Not sure why the other one doesnt work.