Hello,
recently bought Pixhawk 6x, flashed Arducopter heli 4.3.5 firmware into it with no issues. Got through all the basic setup and calibration. Now to the issue, my UAV is a rather large traditional helicopter with internal combustion engine, so I need to read RPM. Did all the configuration as is said in the documentation, but I never get any RPM readings. When I plot RPM1 and RPM2 in MissionPlanner, it always says -1, which I don’t know the meaning of. I can’t find anywhere what -1 RPM reading means.
I only use RPM1, type is set to GPIO, RPMPIN is set to Aux6. I never get any RPM reading. Tried different aux pins as well, RPM2 too, but no success.
I saw in the documentation this line “Everytime the autopilot initializes, it sends a log message to the ground control station, showing which outputs are PWM/Oneshot/or DShot. The remaining higher numbered outputs are assigned as GPIOs.”
In my case it says this - 18/03/2023 14:29:27 : RCOut: PWM:1-16
I don’t know what I could be doing wrong, if I’m missing some setting, anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance!