AP supports many camera gimbals but these have started appearing on various user vehicles including some seen by Randy at the recent Korea Drone Show event.
What’s special about this gimbal is it’s small size (110g) and its relatively large image sensor which suggests the video quality is better than some of the alternatives.
The manufacturer has since provided a free camera gimbal to Randy but due to a communication error Ferruccio went ahead and purchased his early.
Hi Randy
This is Jeff from XF Robot. Sorry for missing your message. Thank you very much for your interest in our products. We would love to send you products.
This is my email：du.jian@allxianfei.com
I noticed that this pod is available on Amazon. The only camera pod I’ve used so far is the SIYI A8. I’m using SIYI MK32 ground station and air unit which requires a network output camera. I see that this pod has a network output along with HDMI. If i purchase this pod, does the manufacturer provide firmware compatible with my MK32 air unit using either a SIYI N7 autopilot (ArduPilot/copter) or a Qiotek Zealot 7 autopilot? I’m afraid my programming skills are not very good.
I can’t answer all your questions but ArduPilot supports the XF Robot camera gimbals in version 4.7 (see wiki here). The current stable version of AP is 4.6.1 so until we backport the driver (which will likely happen for 4.6.3 or 4.6.4, the autopilot would need to have “latest” (aka 4.7.0-dev) installed.
BTW, we should probably move this discussion to the Copter-4.6 forums.