Hi all, I’m going to buy a skydroid c12 to be mounted on my drone. I didn’t understand from the manual if there’s a way to view the video directly in Mission planner and control the gimbal from it. Can I also use any laptop? Do I need additional hardware? What is the best hardware configuration for this purpose? Or do I necessarily need a SkyDroid remote control?
Thanks for the answers
Hey— did you ever figure this out? Looking to do something similar.
Hi Ryan,
I tested my new C12 a bit, it has its own app that works quite well from the h12 pro, and I set qgc to see the video rtsp streaming. Guides says that you can connect the h12 pro via jst gh 4pin to the PC Ethernet port to see the streaming but I didn’t try that. Anyway it’s a generic rtsp streaming, so you can see it with any software/hardware that supports it. About gimbal control, I only use it from the official app, which allows you to control the gimbal also from the rc channels, but I didn’t understand how and I didn’t try to see if there is also a way to control it via pwm. It would be good because if you open qgc android sometimes could close the gimbal app and you would lose gimbal control. There is also a mysterious 3 pin jst on the c12 and manuals don’t talk about it. I didn’t test it yet, maybe it’s a pwm control? Maybe the other C12 owners of the forum know something about it. Unfortunately, Skydroid has a heavy lack of documentation and very poor software, very bad optimized (at least for the h12 pro). I will test all the things a soon as I can, because actually I’m building two drones from zero.
Thanks for the insight! Currently working on an autonomous surveillance UAV so very interested in any future discoveries, given the rather lackluster documentation. What kind of range were you getting with that setup? Looking at perhaps streaming it through raspberry pi ethernet over a cellular hat.
I’ll do the first flight in these days (maybe tomorrow) and I’m also curious about the range cause some discussion on the internet worried me a bit. Try to stream with raspberry could be an interesting solution, that is also semplified by rtsp protocol I suppose; but what about lag?
There will almost certainly be meaningful lag, but for a surveillance platform performing autonomous functions, that shouldn’t pose as much of an issue as with a manually-piloted craft… seeing no other options I was planning on making that sacrifice. Let me know how your testing goes!
Hey hi did you figure out what the 3pin jst connector is for? I also want a pwm control for the same gimbal.
I got the RTSP working, but am very lost on how I can control the gimbal with Ardupilot, any ideas about the 3-pin?
I am also looking for this 3pin solution, is there any way to control this gimbal from the QGround control side?
Hey, If you got the camera and it working why don’t you connect it with manufacture app and sneak into to the packet using nmap or wireshark and see the packet when you move gimbal using app maybe through this you will get to know about the protocol used to control gimbal since gimbal control and stream both uses LAN
Hi huys, sorry for the late response but I’m starting a new survey company that also operates with drones and I’m a bit busy 
I’m actually working on another drone but I think I’ll assemble the c12 drone in a month and doing some tests about the mysterious port.
About nmap and wireshark, they are two good ways to understand the gimbal control protocol and discover if it’s usable from the gcs software. I’ll try it for sure thank you.
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