I just finished building a quadcopter. I’m using a Holybro Pixhawk 6c and ELRS radio. The transmitter is a Radiomaster Pocket. It has a small screen on it. I’m trying to keep this build and setup relatively simple. I’m trying to figure out how to be able to see the altitude of the quad on the Radiomaster Pocket. I don’t have any FPV gear on this build and I won’t be using a ground control station. This drone is really just used for a rather specific purpose so altitude and maybe distance is all I really need to see on the radio but I can’t figure out how to do that.
Yaapu telemetry script will give you full telemetry on ELRS.
Yaapu might be a bit busy for such a small screen. You could also just use the telemetry stream on the radio. I can’t remember but you might need to trigger bit 8 in RC_OPTIONS (you’d need to do that for Yappu anyhow) Then in EdgeTX you can display sensor data on the screen. There should be basics like Altitude and battery voltage.
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Thank you for the replies. I found Alt in the telemetry stream but it’s actually the elevation. I’d like to see the drone’s altitude above its launch point. I can’t figure out how to do that. I’m willing to try yaapu Lua on the pocket. If it turns out to be too busy I can always remove it. I’m not sure how exactly to add it to the Pocket radio. I did INAV Lua on my TX16S a long time ago but I’ve forgotten how I did that.
Here’s all the info for yaapu.
Once you have the sensors set up in yaapu, if you don’t want to use the script you could just add them on a blank telemetry page on the radio screen.
The full data stream should have your AGL. I know it comes up on my radios running Yaapu, and it’s in the data stream. I’ll dig and see if I can get the name for you.
Hmm, I’m definitely struggling with this little radio. It’s the perfect formfactor for what I’m using the drone for but I can’t get the altitude above launch sorted out to save my life. It either gives me altitude above sea level or nothing.
I tried to install the Yaapu Lua but it keeps giving me a syntax error saying attempt to call nil value. I thought I followed the instructions off the github page and copied the black and white common file to the SD card in the SD file like it told me to but when I try to execute it on the RM Pocket I get the syntax message. I sure wish I understood computers better.