Using 8 Benwake TFmini Plus lidars with Cube orange plus

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Thanks for the reply, I have gone through his posts and found them helpful. I’ll try a bit and see how far I could get.
For anyone else looking for this here are the threads I found useful:

How to make the TFMINI rangefinder talk I2C

[image] The Benewake TFMINI is a small Laser RangeFinder that has a lot of potential as a replacement for the Sonar. Its in the same price range as the Maxbotix and it has a range up to 12 Meter indoor and 6 Meter outdoor. It comes preconfigured in binary output at 115200 Bauds and we can change the mode by issuing these commands through the Benewake console (http://benewake.com/en/down.html) or using Realterm: The command of standard output is 42 57 02 00 00 00 01 06 The command of pix …

Avoidance Experiments with the POC and Benewake TFMINI

[image] Ahhh… Winter in Canada … While the kids play hockey outside with sticks and a puck , I play inside with sticks and a POC !! A few month ago I started experimenting with the Avoidance Library: http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/code-overview-object-avoidance.html And I designed The POC : Proximity Obstacle Collision avoidance system based on an Arduino Pro Mini and VL50LX0 TOF rangefinders. This unit works pretty well, the only drawback is that it is sh…

TFmini plus ,avoidance and arduino

HI there, I’m new to this community even if I have already spent many hours reading I’m trying to feed my copter with 4 distance messages mesured from 4 TFMini plus sensors configured to work with I2C. I didn’t find any way to configure multiple I2C lidar sensors (each one in a different direction) neither a driver compliant with arducopter, so I imagined the workaround: An arduino (or teensy) connected to a pixhawk telemetry port. => The arduino collects the TFmini plus valu…

Benewake TFmini-S: How to issue commands to change from UART to I2C?

Hello, Just a quick introduction to start. My name is Jan and I live in the south-west of Ireland. I have a Holybro X500 kit with Pixhawk4 and have been flying for a few weeks now including a couple non fatal crashes. I have added a FPV cam, OSD, OLED Display and RFD868 Telemetry. Latest addition now is the TFmini-S Lidar. I use mainly 3D printed parts for mounting everything to the frame. I use a Jumper T16 TX and a Jumper R8 receiver incl Telemetry for the Yappu Scripts on the X500. I have r…

Range Finder Greyed out

Anyone know why Rangefinder is greyed out. I can see it faintly says none. But no option to adjust it. Even if I set the config behind the scenes. [image] Mission planner build [image]