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Camera Control with 2.5?

Posted by Jimmy Prouty on September 26, 2012 at 8:50pm

Hi All.

Integrating a new 2.5 and would like to know if there's any way to control a camera with the AP.  I can set the camera internally to trigger at a given time but would like to either set waypoints for triggering or at a given distance from the last trigger.  Is this possible with the 2.5?

Thanks!

Jimmy

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  • Balint Rigo November 10, 2012 at 3:03pm

    Hi,

    I'm trying to use the 'transistor' trigger option of APM Planner to trigger the camera. Basically, all I need APM to do is set the the signal pin of a specific servo output to digital 1.

    In the Planner I set CAM_TRIGG_TYPE to 'transistor' and RC9_FUNCTION to 'camera trigger'. How do I set up the mission so that the camera is triggered at waypoints/a specific waypoint?

    Thanks for you help!

  • Jimmy Prouty September 27, 2012 at 6:12am
    I have the same problem - I don't have the skills to write the code and thought the capability was already there. According to the wiki you can only trigger the camera manually which means the 2.5 won't work well for triggering cameras at a given interval or base on GPS coordinates. May have to wait for the next version.
  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer September 26, 2012 at 10:51pm

    Decided to open an issue here, please star it if it affects you.

  • Greg Fletcher September 26, 2012 at 10:19pm

    Any thing's possible. Hardware +/- 5 v to camera, write some code and integrate it to the latest version of Ardupilot.

  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer September 26, 2012 at 9:51pm

    I'm trying something related, trying to get a servo to activate at a waypoint but no help yet and I can't figure out why I'm getting no output to the servo - http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/automated-parachute-drop

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