Is it just my Mission Planner or have others noticed that for Rover there is no picture of a river frame type and no frame type parameter is set?
I found a forum post about manually setting the Frame type and doing so resolved the issue of THROTTLE-left and Throttle-right not working to control my rover.
I’ve read that rover’s code is based on copter’s and the only frame type options I see in config are copter frame types. Is this a mistake? Shouldn’t there be rover frame types to choose from?
when you upload ardurover it will give you and option within the parameters to set the frame class. There are not specific pictures on the install page for different types of rovers just plain ardurover then you set the below parameters depending on your vehicle type.
Frame Class
Values
Value Meaning
0 Undefined
1 Rover
2 Boat
3 BalanceBot
https://ardupilot.org/rover/docs/parameters-Rover-stable-V4.2.2.html?highlight=frame%20class#frame-class-frame-class
Under Mandatory setup items the first item i have is Frame . The only options are “Undefined” and then “X”, “Y”, and other COPTER options. Setting Frame_class from 0 to 1 solved problems for me, yet I never saw anything in the setup docs to say to do that. Im trying to help others avoid going through the same problems when they could be avoided by setting this parameter during initial config. Hopefully this thread and your response will do that.
I am not sure MP has ever supported setting rover frame class in the method you mention, let me grab a board an see if thats the case. what version of MP are you using?
There has as far as I am aware of never been a way to setup rover frame class from MP setup and instead you will have to use the above mentioned frame_class
Frame Class
Values
Value Meaning
0 Undefined
1 Rover
2 Boat
3 BalanceBot
https://ardupilot.org/rover/docs/parameters-Rover-stable-V4.2.2.html?highlight=frame%20class#frame-class-frame-class
That’s right. Simply go to the Full Parameter List and set the FRAME_CLASS (default Rover) and FRAME_TYPE ( default Undefined) for the vehicle you have.
