Cfclient cannot detect crazyflie

[Keepgoing0925]

hi, I'm a new crazyflie user and I can't connect the drone in the cfclient. I'm on Windows and in particular, after inserting the crazyradio PA USB dongle and checking in device management that it is actually detected, I open the cfclient and turn on the crazyflie. By clicking on scan I am unable to find any crazyflies. Even if I connect the crazyflie to the USB I cannot configure it manually, as I want to underline that the drones I am using, given that they are in a laboratory, have been previously used by other people.

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[Urlaxle]

I had a similar issue yesterday where I could see that the dongle was detected by the system but not in the cfclient.

It turned out that I just had to flash new firmware on my Crazyradio 2.0. It is pretty straightforward to do following the official tutorial: https://www.bitcraze.io/documentation/tutorials/getting-started-with-crazyradio-2-0/

If your Crazyflie have been used by others previously you would think the firmware already is updated but it may be worth a shot if it is still not working for you.

[ToveRumar]

Hi @Keepgoing0925 !
Thank you for supplying us with such detailed information about your issue!

Have you tried installing the Windows drivers as described here; https://www.bitcraze.io/documentation/repository/crazyradio-firmware/master/building/usbwindows/?

If this does not work I would suggest trying the suggestion by @Urlaxle above to make sure you have working and "up to date" FW on the radio.