Still can't connect!!!!!

[Suwaneeguy]

This is like totally pissing me off to no end.
My procedure is:
1) Plug the power in to the ground end.
2) Turn the controller on. (gps on, ioc in homelock)
3) Turn the aircraft on, let it go through the process until I get green lights.
4) turn on the ipad and hit ground station.

No controller is found.

On the air end box it shows 2 green lights one blinking.
On the ground end box it shows one green, one red (blinking).
My battery for the ground end is a phantom 1 battery.

Open the ipad settings and check the bluetooth connections.
No devices found.

I also decided to try connecting directly to the canbus instead of the iosd mini and that made no differences.

So what am I doing wrong?

 

[OI Photography]

How far apart are your ground end and air end when you're trying to connect?

 

[Timsytanker]

Try shutting the app down and switch everything off. Turn on quad transmitter, then quad, power up ground end and wait for quad to get gps lock. Open the app and it should see the aircraft.

 

[Timsytanker]

Oh, and you won't see the GS in your Bluetooth settings on iPad, the app sorts that out somehow...

 

[Suwaneeguy]

tried that tanker, no change.
I have the two items about ten feet apart.

 

[OI Photography]

Are you sure Bluetooth is turned on, on the iPad? Even though you won't see/connect to the datalink through the Bluetooth controls (as Timsytanker mentioned), the BT does still need to be switched on.

 

[Suwaneeguy]

BT is on. I checked the setting in ipad just to make sure.

 

[OI Photography]

What lights do you see on the BTU?

 

[Timsytanker]

Are you on IOS 7.1.2?

 

[Suwaneeguy]

yes ios 7

 

[Timsytanker]

Try deleting app and re-installing?

 

[andersonpaac]

yes ios 7

1) You won't be able to see the BT listed in settings because it connects to a non broadcasting BT device using a selection of mac addresses (think of a mac address as a unique identifier to any intelligent device)
2) Uninstall app , restart device , download app
3) Bring it to a place with low interference
4) turn air end on , ground end on and then open the app when everything shows green

 

[Suwaneeguy]

Still can't find main controller.
Uninstalled the app, reinstalled.
Charged the batteries.

 

[Timsytanker]

What battery are you using for the ground end and how have you run the antenna on the Phantom? I use a parkzone 3 cell from a parkzone Trojan and have run one antenna down a leg and the other under a motor arm. With the ground end sitting on my flight box I can get out to over 1300 metres away with no problems.

 

[Suwaneeguy]

I'm using a standard phantom 1 battery.
11.1 volt 20c 2200mah

 

[OI Photography]

Do you see any lights on the BTU?

 

[Suwaneeguy]

BTU dongle shows 1 red light.

 

[andersonpaac]

BTU dongle shows 1 red light.

Should be green

 

[Suwaneeguy]

thanks anderson
I'm beginning to suspect I have either a bad BTU module or a bad ground end box.

 

[isky172]

I'm pretty sure the quad needs to be more than 9 feet away from you in order to be detected. I.e., air end needs to be at least 9 or so feet from the ground end. Literally - I'm not kidding. Too close and it won't find it or connect.