I was wondering if there was a simple built in way of streaming the GPS data of the plane out of Mission Planner into Plugin software to drive a RS-232 Antenna Tracker system?
The info that is needed is Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude. I have a friend that is willing to write a basic Plugin to communicate the info to the serial-Servo driver.
If this info streamable from Mission Planner that would make it easier.
Any insight into this would be helpful...
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Hola Ricardo.
no se si estas usando pololu maestro para controlar tracker, pero estoy interesado si es asi en conocer los valores puestos en mission planner para control de tracker por que mi servo 360º de pan no para de dar vueltas. saludos
Ricardo Affonso said:
Hello Colin,
I am looking to use my APM 2.5 which i dont fly with anymore to build a tracker for my RFD900 Long range Modem.
The Wiki page has given more questions in my head than actually were...Would seek ur kind advice..
Thanks in advance!!
Ricardo: would you like to share your antenna tracker setup like mechanical and software setup also? Because mine was not work properly yet.
Regards
press control-G for nmea output.
the planner does support antenna tracking as well.
Help would be great. Thanks
Michael,
Another question for your but not on the tracker.
I noticed that there is many other item/features in the menu along with the tracker. Can we get some directions on what they are for and how to utilize them. I'm sorry to ask this if it is in the wiki but i have not been able to find it.
Thanks for all your help and support.
Joe
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)
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 ....
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
Micheal,
I have this servo controller (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1350) and it is not talking to Mission Planner as a tracker. They move when linked to the software from Pololu but mot mission planner. I also have another issue with my new APM. It will sometime link via usb and somtimes it wont. It just times out. What do you think this issue is. It seems to have started when I updated it to 2.3 Ardupilot firmware.
I really need some help. Thanks
Joe
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