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Getting CAM messages in Arducopter 3.2.1

Posted by Venkatakrishnan on June 11, 2016 at 7:19am

I'm Planning to do mapping with my quad running on Arducopter 3.2.1 . I want APM to log the Cam messages that get triggered with respect to the distance travelled. I tried editing the bits of the Log_Bitmask. But noway i was able to log the CAM messages on APM. Somebody please help me.
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Mike Boland June 11, 2016 at 12:35pm

How do you have the camera hot shoe hooked up?

Have you connected the hot shoe to the right pins and configured the parameters to read the pins correctly?
- Venkatakrishnan > Mike Boland June 12, 2016 at 8:50am
  
  Hi Mike,
  
  I do have my Canon Ixus 135 plugged to RC9 pin of my APM via a mini usb cable and I am able to trigger the camera through the GCS. But there is no CAM message that gets looged in the Dataflash log.
  - Venkatakrishnan > Venkatakrishnan June 12, 2016 at 9:52am
    
    Also do i need to have a GPS 3d fix to have the CAM messages logged ?
    - Mike Boland > Venkatakrishnan June 12, 2016 at 12:51pm
      
      Have read through this:
      
      Camera Shutter Control
      
      Camera Shutter Configuration — Copter documentation
      - Venkatakrishnan > Mike Boland June 12, 2016 at 10:44pm
        
        Thank you for the link Mike.
        
        And as i said Mike i can control the process of taking image from Mission planner. What i want is the CAM message that stores the data when i triggered the camera.