Problems getting motor starting after reboot

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Hello.

I’m having problems starting the motor once the ODrive is rebooted. I’m kinda lost on what exactly to set after the boot to have it running successfuly.

Here’s something I do after the boot:
odrv0.axis0.requested_state = AXIS_STATE_FULL_CALIBRATION_SEQUENCE
odrv0.axis0.requested_state = AXIS_STATE_ENCODER_OFFSET_CALIBRATION
odrv0.axis0.requested_state = AXIS_STATE_ENCODER_INDEX_SEARCH

Then, after I request the CLOSED_LOOP state, it doesn’t work. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes it does after resetting the axis error or encoder error and trying everything in various order.

I have AMT10-V encoder with 8192 turns. All of the commands run and turn the motor, but the encoder is not ready. To be honest, I don’t know what exactly sets the encoder is_ready state. It looks like when the is_ready is true, it works, otherwise it does not.

This is the output from the .encoder.

error = 0x0000 (int)
is_ready = False (bool)
index_found = False (bool)
shadow_count = 30996 (int)
count_in_cpr = 6420 (int)
interpolation = 0.5 (float)
phase = -0.05323982238769531 (float)
pos_estimate = 30996.96484375 (float)
pos_cpr = 6420.7685546875 (float)
hall_state = 0 (int)
vel_estimate = 0.0 (float)
config:
  mode = 0 (int)
  use_index = True (bool)
  pre_calibrated = False (bool)
  idx_search_speed = 50.0 (float)
  cpr = 8192 (int)
  offset = 14646 (int)
  offset_float = 1.2071046829223633 (float)
  bandwidth = 1000.0 (float)
  calib_range = 0.05000000074505806 (float)

Motor is RaceStar BL 4076 with 4 Poles and 2000KV.

Thanks in advance.

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You should only have to do odrv0.axis0.requested_state = AXIS_STATE_FULL_CALIBRATION_SEQUENCE then CLOSED_LOOP.

Alternatively, use the startup configs

odrv0.axis0.config.startup_motor_calibration = True
odrv0.axis0.config.startup_encoder_offset_calibration = True
odrv0.axis0.config.startup_encoder_index_search = True
odrv0.axis0.config.startup_closed_loop_control = True

Make sure you don’t have any of the “precalibrated” configs set (for testing, you can enable them later once everything is working)

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It would help us to give you advice if you can tell us what the error codes were.