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Permalink Reply by tycinis on April 28, 2009 at 2:32pm

You can if the Radio have a 3 position swith like this one on my Hitec eclipse 7 :

You can setup the three function in Ardupilot code here :

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11804826&postcoun...

Have a nice day ^^

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Permalink Reply by Olav on April 28, 2009 at 11:46pm

Hi Tycinis
Thanks a lot for your assistance but this creates a few questions I hope you can help me with.
First of all, I have loaded Ardupilot 2.1 and as far as I can see the first part(in the thread) is already in the code:

byte Tx_Switch_Status(void) //Return zero when we are in manual mode, return 2 when autopilot mode 0, return 3 when autopilot mode 1...
{
if(digitalRead(4)==HIGH)
{
if(digitalRead(5)==HIGH)
return 0x01; // WP mode
else
return 0x02; // RTL mode
}
else
return 0x00;
}

I do have this switch on my radio but as far as i have understood this is not linked to any channel (5 or 6) but are used to recall a particular flight mode. Is there any setup procedyre I have to do on the radio in order to assign this switch to channel 5 or 6?
I put everything together yesterday and tried but could not get any reaction on the switch. I must obviously missed something.
And again, thanks for your assitance!

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Permalink Reply by Jason Sherlock on March 9, 2012 at 2:50pm

Hi, I too have the Eclipse 7 and have just ordered the APM v2 controller.  Can anybody explain how to program the Eclipse so that the 3-way flight mode switch can be used to control the APM's flight mode? (Just like the post below, I also thought that flight mode just selected a preset of mixes/trims?)  Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by burison on January 4, 2013 at 2:58pm

Hi, I managed to set up your Eclipse 7 for your APM 2.0 or 2.5? Thanks for your help.

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