I have scoured the internet for this basic info, and could not find anything. Am I missing something basic here? Thanks to anyone who can tell me what to do before I try the wrong thing.
I have spent months going thru full simulation, then the AI stuff (on PI4, Nano), then HITL. HITL with jMAVsim with 6c works, with the Nano doing AI object recognition and sending Mavlink (pymavlink) to the 6c to land when my face recognized. I did this without assistance (well, Ardupilot/PX4 sites, Youtube, stackoverflow, etc… whithout them I could do nothing; the Intelligent Quads video series got me thru the simulation part; I did that series several times before I got it right).
So I am used to answering my own questions. But now I have this new RP1, and I am stuck Until now I have been focusing mainly on non-hardware issues… but now finally putting together a real copter (slowly…).
I tried to connect to the 6c a few a days ago from Win11 Mission planner to TELEM2 via FTDI, but something is not right (my wire splicing is horrendous, anything could be wrong). I could do it though via a USB from Win11 to the USB port (on the front face, not the side) of the 6c. All documented (roughly on that Gdrive and wiki). So I am a newbie to this forum, but not so much a newbie to some aspects of drones.
(1) You can connect an ELRS receiver to any full-duplex serial port of the 6C, including telem2.
(2) Receiver RX goes to FC TX and vice versa. On the wiki page they used Serial4 as example, with telem2 on 6C you’ll need Serial2, as seen here.
Thanks Janno. I just need a simple example, one way of exactly how it is done. There is no RC club around here where I live, I have no RC friends. I’ve watched 10 youtube videos (Bardwell, Painless 360, etc) about configuring the RP1 receiver, the tx12, the lua scripts, etc… Ok, I understand how its done. But I hesitated to do this without knowing more detail, because I only have 1 FC (6c) and dont want to blow anything up (hardware scares me … in particular, does Rx go to Tx? ). Specific examples are really quite helpful to newbies .
FYI, it took me a over 2 days to get it connected. I had to first install 2.5.2 on TX/RX, then downgrade Python to 3.11 on my PC. But in the end it worked. Much more complicated than I thought. Maybe I did something wrong. In any case, this document describes in details what I did. Thanks again @Janno for the help. 3.1-3b_hitl1_px4_connections_RC-TX_RP1-RX_v20_24.0324.docx @ 3 HITL (real FC) - Google Drive
Hello I i am facing a similar issue but i am using Pixhawk 2.4.8 although i have successfully paired my tx and rx but the mission planner is not showing anything in the radio config tab do you have any resources?