I think so. There was not an option for the Split 2S. Which one did you use? I will play around with these settings again as that may explain the erratic behavior. I have also ordered the new Runcam Hybrid 2. I assume the controls are the same as the original Hybrid – seems they just improved the FPV cam.
Not sure if you have seen the mavlink camera control done by Olli. I have on the bench managed full camera settings control of all Hero 7/8 /9 setting via QCG. The only drawback is that it requires a Storm32 board and an ESP32. If you dispense with gimbal control the ESP32 could do it all but that is not within the scope of Olli’s project. He also has a fork of OpenTx/EdgeTX that allows full LUA control.
Hi, I’m using a runcam phoenix 2 JB edition with pixhawk 2.4.8 (chinese version). I wired runcam on serial port 5 of pthe pixhawk. I work with Mision planner 1.3.75 and arducopter 4.0.7. I set up the SERIAL5_PROTOCOL to 26 and I am booting the camera in UART control mode.
I dont get the message for “APM: RunCam …” as indicated in the support page.
I tried both firmwares,fmuv2 and fmuv3, no success. I wired TX to RX and RX to TX, I switched too after to test. Not possile to get the message for run cam in MP.
I don’t use RC, the drone is piloted by computer via the pixhawk. My purpose is to take photos and videos on using autopilot for the drone.
The video signal from the camera is well captured on an Android device via a VTX.
Have you any ideas on how to make working my run cam with pixhawk?
The RunCam parameters all start with CAM_RC_ - I don’t see those in there which makes me think you have the wrong firmware. D’oh - you are using a 1MB PixHawk so not supported. If you think your board does not have the 1MB flaw then you could use the 2MB build which will have the feature in - otherwise you will have to use the custom firmware builder to create one
I tested in a new pixhawk i get recently and works fine, i get the RC params now:
|CAM_RC_BT_DELAY|7000|
|CAM_RC_BTN_DELAY|300|
|CAM_RC_CONTROL|10|
|CAM_RC_FEATURES|96|
|CAM_RC_MDE_DELAY|800|
|CAM_RC_TYPE|1|
I still don’t see in MP the message for “APM: RunCam …” , so i don’t know if my camera is visible from MP and can be used.
Btw, should I set CAM_RC_TYPE = 1 or 2 for this type of camera?
I don’t think this camera has any picture taking capabilities - it just outputs continuously to the VTX. The control aspect will just allow you to change settings.
Hi all, I am new to this place, a little less for Arducopter use and I am french (sorry if I make language mistake).
I have recently buy a Runcam 2 4k for my quadcopter and wire it to my Pixhawk controller for remote recording video and more if it possible.
There is very poor information about the serial connection for this camera (https://support.runcam.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500000261762-How-to-Use-TX-RX-UART-Control-of-Runcam-2-4k) but it run good and I am able to receive the informations and features.
For the Runcam 2 4k we have 2 key OSD fonction and 0x77 (POWER, WIFI, MODE, SETTING, DPORT, START) for features.
I have test it with different camera type parameter but none run correctly.
This camera have the picture fonctionnality and the OSD menu have not Save and Exit item.
If I test it with the type (Split), I can switch between the camera and OSD mode but impossible to launch recording or navigate to OSD.
With type 3 (Split 4 4k), the recording command run but swith beetwen the mode are eratic.
From there I started to study the code to understand why it does not work correctly and how it can modified.
At this moment I have done modifications and now I want to test it (I am not a beginner but I is my firt time into Ardupilot developpement).
@andyp1per thank a lot for you job and if you want see the modifications I suppose it is possible to share it via Github .