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Permalink Reply by Dan Ho on March 26, 2012 at 8:37pm

Wow, that's really nice!  You think of everything, don't you?  ;)

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Permalink Reply by Joseph on March 26, 2012 at 3:18pm

I will give this a try today.

I was pulling my hair out on this. Thanks for your help in this. It will be great to be able to use this feature. 

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Permalink Reply by Joseph on March 26, 2012 at 7:51pm

Mike,

It worked perfectly...

What direction does it center to?

Thanks for the great work.

joe

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on March 26, 2012 at 8:19pm

it by default will be North and No Pitch, but when you connect you shoudl be able to use the "trim" to point it wherever you want it.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph on March 26, 2012 at 9:28pm

Thanks...
I used the trims a bit while testing. Should I also change the pwm to the same settings I put in the pololu software. Or should they stay at 2000? Thanks for all your help.
Joe

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on March 27, 2012 at 12:21am

Joe, apart from the settings i mentioned, i would leave all other default.

for the maestro, the PWM box doesn't do anything. Changing the number as you suggested would cause bad scaling of the angle, and it would not track correctly.

Permalink Reply by Joseph on March 27, 2012 at 10:37am

roger that. thanks for your help.

Permalink Reply by James on April 27, 2012 at 4:26am

Ηι Michael, im quite close to fix it, but i have some questions:

-I use pololu micro maestro with 180d pan servo and 90d tilt servo, I found & set the range for both and calced the  8-bit range. I opened the planner, configured the degrees, but pan was reversed even if checked or uncheked the reverce. any ideas?

-control center doesn't accept the exact calced values, instead it uses the higher closest, is that a problem? can we override it?

-Also, what about the the 8-bit neutral and Rate values? should we leave them default?

thanks you very much for the nice and new UI & features.

James

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Permalink Reply by Joseph on March 28, 2012 at 5:20am

Micheal,
I was wondering if for the next update you could put an option to tell the tracker that it is facing a direction rather then defaulting to north. My field that I fly at is facing ease and the servo I have is only a 180 deg pan. So I will only get 90deg of motion in the direction I fly. I know there is a trim function but I dont know if I can get it far enought to compensate. So maybe a box to type in what direction zero or neutral is. In my case a box to type in zero is 090. The meg heading.
Thanks.
Joe

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Michael Oborne on March 28, 2012 at 5:25am

Joe, this should already work.

face your tracker east, and use trim to point it at the plane. and that should be it.

Michael

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Permalink Reply by Vincent Mees on March 28, 2012 at 5:49am

Is it possible that the"old APM 1820" can be used as a servo controller for the antenna tracker.

I'm certain that a lot of people would be happy now its no longer supported for arducopter/plane.

Unfortunatly I'm not a programmer, otherwise ....

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Permalink Reply by Ravi on March 28, 2012 at 7:45am

yes it can be used for anteena tracker. load ardu trracker. just whcih two channela are assigne dot servo out pins. i had done that with ardupilot (basic)

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