Motors wont spin

[Placebo]

Hi, so im building my first drone and it seems that everything is working, i calibrated everything including the escs, i got the drone to work motors spinning and all but when i turn it off and back on it all connects and turns on but when i push up on the throttle nothing happens,
I checked if the reciever was on which it was and it does connect to the controller. I am using the APM 2.8, the flysky i6x or something like that, im also connecting through PPM, some troubleshooting tips would be great

 

[JasonK]

That looks like it is running ardupilot, did you setup an arm switch?
If you have video setup, are there any messages in the OSD?

 

[Placebo]

That looks like it is running ardupilot, did you setup an arm switch?
If you have video setup, are there any messages in the OSD?

Man i just looked at the arming thing and yeh i think thats my issue my stupid apm board has a the bad compass heath problem stopping me from calibrating it it pisses me off, so yeh problem solved, wont arm, i dont even need a compass as i aint using gps but there isnt a way to tell my board that.

 

[Allister779]

Arducopter won't work without a compass (unless you're getting into a multi GPS setup). If you want to fly without a compass you'll need to switch to BetaFlight. Might also be worth looking at Inav but I'm not sure if it needs a compass or not.

Here's some info on going without a compass on Arducopter. You'll need to have your board running the latest firmware (4.1) and I don't know if that's possible on an older APM 2.8.
https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-compassless.html?highlight=compass

Might be easier to just buy a gps/compass module.