I am trying to configure the Fail-safe option, Mission Planner/Pixhawk does not detect when I turn the radio off so it will not trigger Fail-safe.
If I start mission planner with the radio turned off, it correctly shows no radio and as soon as I turn it on it correctly shows its connected but as soon as I turn it off to trigger a fail-safe the screen still shows the radio is connected even though its off.
I am using a Turnigy 10 Channel system connected via PPM, all other aspects work but this one has got me stumped and is preventing me going out flying, anyone got a clue as what’s gone wrong here.
No help on this one but just in case someone else stumbles across it searching the same issue the fix is as below
In the receivers failsafe setup only set failsafe on channel 3 and set it to its minimum value
In mission planner go to the transmitter setup page, on the transmitter set the throttle trim as high as it will go, this takes the minimum up above 1000 then calibrate the transmitter. this locks the high trim level as its new minimum about 1100 in my case.
Then set the failsafe trigger to just below the new minimum figure eg 1090.
Now when the radio is switched off the throttle signal drops back to 1000 and the failsafe triggers.
Hope I remember to do this the next time I build a model