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          • Jim Rowe > Glenn Gregory December 13, 2015 at 9:07pm

            hello Glenn, I know this is an old post, but did you by chance look into this any more?  It seems a whole lot more straightforward to invert the output signal and send directly from the PX4.

  • Jeroen Brosens April 2, 2014 at 4:10am

    This weekend I bought a Teensy 3.1 from the Arduino booth at the maker faire I was flying drones on :)

    Yesterday I wired it to my OpenRLSng but failed to get telemetry info on my Taranis. So I just wanted to check some things:

    1. The Teensy flashes every second while it is starting up and is solidly lit when active so it seems, is this the correct behaviour?
    2. What is the baud rate the Teensy outputs the SmartPort telemetry? I guessed it was 57600 and setup my OpenRLSng TX accordingly.
    3. I also have a MinimOSD connected to my APM and with the Teensy connected too I see the OSD values update at a much higher rate than normally, is this because the Teensy "pulls" the telemetry faster?
    4. I setup my OpenLRSng RX with the telemetry function set to "yes" (options are no/yes/SmartPort/FrSky). I figured that Teensy already speaks SmartPort and therefore it should be transmitted verbatim, right?
    5. I have the signal inverter mod done on my OpenLRSng TX module as per these instructions. Do I still need this?

    I have made across-post of this on the OpenLRSng thread at RCGroups too and will share the answers. Thanks!

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    • LTMNO > Jeroen Brosens April 2, 2014 at 5:54am

      very cool, i have been meaning to get my LRS project going... thanks for posting

  • Manuel Korell April 2, 2014 at 2:43am

    Hello Rolf.

    Thanks for a great job, I'm very impressed.
    I have taken the liberty to change some of the code so Fuel can be read as a percentage.
    I do not know if it has use to anyone other then me, but I like to see how much I have left in the battery. 

    In "MavLink_FrSkySPort"

    // Message # 1 SYS_STATUS
    uint16_t ap_voltage_battery = 0; // 1000 = 1V
    int16_t ap_current_battery = 0; // 10 = 1A
    int16_t ap_battery_remaining = 0; // new

    ***

    ap_voltage_battery = Get_Volt_Average(mavlink_msg_sys_status_get_voltage_battery(&msg)); // 1 = 1mV
    ap_current_battery = Get_Current_Average(mavlink_msg_sys_status_get_current_battery(&msg)); // 1=10mA
    ap_battery_remaining = mavlink_msg_sys_status_get_battery_remaining(&msg); // new

    if(ap_battery_remaining<=0) // new
    {
    ap_battery_remaining=0; // new
    }

    ***

    In "FrSkySPort"

    case 19:
    FrSkySPort_SendPackage(FR_ID_FUEL,ap_battery_remaining); //new, the other line with FR_ID_FUEL is deleted
    break;

    It works with me, and I do not think it affects any of the other code.

    • LTMNO > Manuel Korell April 2, 2014 at 5:55am

      I will most definitely uset his feature as I like to know the usage of the battery as well.


      Thanks for doing so.

  • Brano March 28, 2014 at 6:58pm

    I've got my Teensy to work! ...thank you Rolf and others ;)

    I've noticed one small issue. The Teensy does not always kick in after plugging main battery. Often, after I plug in main battery, I have to disconnect and reconnect Teensy from S.Port or disconnect and reconnect X8R from APM (I'm using CPPM converter).

    Also, the X8R has A1 built in analog voltage sensor providing the voltage that powers the X8R. So in case where Teensy is powered from X8R A2 is always same as A1.

    • Rolf Blomgren > Brano March 29, 2014 at 3:09am

      A2 is coming from Teensy analog port A0, if this port is not connected then you will get a random value as A2.

      else if connected you will have 0V = 0 to 3.3V = 255 these values are then scaled at the Taranis to show a representation of the voltage.

      • Chip Young > Rolf Blomgren August 7, 2014 at 1:33pm

        Rolf I have a couple of questions about this reply.  First I am running an apm 2.6 with the teensy 3.1 board hooked to my Frysky 8XR receiver using my Taranis Transmitter.  My telemetry is working fine but my battery voltage (CEL and CELS) is showing .2 amps low.  Is there anyway to correct this or should I just work around this issue. (not a big deal...better lower than higher)

        My A2 reading on the Taranis is  jumping all over.  When I disconnect teensy it goes back to normal.  You mention that A2 voltage comes from pin A0, My A0 pin is not wired into anything.  How would I go about connecting and correcting it.

      • Brano > Rolf Blomgren March 29, 2014 at 5:41am

        I understand. All I'm saying is that voltage on A1 and A2 is going to show the same value if Teensy is powered from X8R. 

        Any thoughts on the power-on issue I'm seeing? Almost always, after powering the main battery I have to unplug and replug Teensy from X8R to start it working. If I don't is seems "dead" ... no LED won't blink at all.

  • Michael March 27, 2014 at 2:09pm

    This is really cool. Thanks so much for creating this and all the helpful posts. I just received my Teensy today and hope to tinker with it this weekend. Took a couple of images of the board with my digital microscope here at work for anyone to use as reference, etc...

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    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3701694543?profile=original
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