Thanks to the effort between ArduPilot team and SIYI team, we can finally announce the integration of ArduPilot flight attitude data including GPS and time in SIYI gimbal. We believe that by this integration your flight experience with SIYI gimbal on both ArduPlane and ArduCopter will be quite smooth, especially avoid the roll angle tilt when accelerating and yawing.
ArduPilot Firmware Required:
The “latest” version, the updates are already merged into “master”.
Thank you @SIYI - it is great to see this progress!
Here is an example video I took using a SIYI ZT30 on a Carbonix Ottano aircraft using the new ZT30 firmware:
the gimbal control was good, whereas in previous flights the attitude was very bad.
One extra change in the ZT30 firmware that I was flying in this case was a new SIYI SDK command to disable “weak” gimballing. That is what caused issues with high flight speeds (the Ottano flies at around 95 km/hr) and loss of gimbal control. We are still discussing with SIYI how we will integrate this. On the ZT30 this ability to disable weak gimballing when armed is safe, but we are waiting on confirmation that it is safe on other SIYI gimbals.
I’ve also been testing the raw thermal option for the ZT30 in the latest firmware. Using “raw thermal” allows for much better thermal quality at lower frame rates. Currently the raw thermal images get saved to the microSD card (although I have setup a job to transfer those to my laptop while flying so I can view them).
here is a sample image comparing raw thermal to the H265 thermal video
this was a test at a range of around 200m with a very small gas heater as the target. You can see how much easier it is to spot small targets with the raw thermal. The raw thermal files are 16 bit per pixel raw temperatures.
Frank,Tridge and rest of the team what great news this is a few words and a big step forward for SIYI and Ardupilot,thank you so so much.Like Joshanne im interested in the A8 and MK32 progress developement,today my doggie Pixie will get extra sauges because of this,many many thanks Ye He
It would be great if you could also bring out smaller gimbal cameras and not just the ZT30 with unlimited yaw. It doesn’t matter with a copter, but in an aeroplane unlimited yaw is very important to be able to follow objects or fix a point of interest. Tridge’s example film can therefore unfortunately not work with the A8.
Camera set to 192.168.144.26 because on .25 I have a Siyi A2 camera
What does not work:
After some movement commands, the camera spins on its own, without commands that come from Mission Planner UI. After that point, no UI commands affect. See above log & video. Restarting the autopilot makes the movement to change or stop but still further commands do not execute correctly. Restarting the camera stops the movement. Double green LED is still present on camera. Restarting the camera while the autopilot is still on, makes everything work again.
Thermal image has good time in its name but no good GPS info in its EXIF data
There is no raw thermal on the microSD card
My use case it that I just need to know the position of taken images. Or where the camera is pointing to. I do not need precision. For now processed thermal images works.
Let me know what you need to debug. I can ssh into the camera if required.
Hi @SIYI can you confirm whether a similar test firmware will be released for the ZR10 (which has also had many issues with roll angle) in addition to the ZT30?
