I am having trouble trying to work out how to control the gimbal not using an RC transmitter but a joystick ‘hat’ 8 way switch that sits ontop of most joysticks.
Is there anyway to accomplish this?
You mean PC-joystick?
[color=#004000]Then your question should have been posted in the Mission Planner subforum because it’s not a Copter support question!
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Thanks Stefan.
I am relatively new to all of this and have been trying to aim at going completely RC’less and using only MP but have run into a few troubles. Namely;
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Trying to control a camera gimbal without headtracking, as that requires the RC transmitter. I have been trying to use the hat button on the joystick but see no way to accomplish it
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Switching of other channels and Aux channels using joystick buttons (since they are momentary, the command would need to handle the output as a flipflop). I have found no way of doing this yet other than setting waypoints to change the state of a servo.
I am using the Iris which has a pixhawk, Mission Planner and a Dell XPS 12 tablet/laptop. Control using a joystick seems fine although with a small delay. Tablet/laptop only control would be fantastic and has a lot of potential although total control of the outputs similar to RC capabilities is required which as far as I have gotten so far does not seem to be the case. Hoping to be proved wrong…
Brent