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Hi everyone,

We have an X8 copter with pixhawk and are modifying it to take small area, high-res aerial images for mapping. This is all completely new to me so it has been a slow process. We decided to not use the Gopro that came with it due to the fish lens effect, as well as the lack of geotagged photos and recently bought a Canon SX260 camera. We also purchased a bigger gimbal from RCtimer.

I have been using this post on Flight Riot as a guide:

http://flightriot.com/pixhawk-and-apm-mapping-camera-configuration/#comment-696

And have already made the USB trigger recommended for Pixhawk. As a test I have been told to plug a normal USB cable into the camera, start the script on the camera, and insert the other end into a PC. The script should trigger the camera. If it does not, then something is wrong with the setup on the camera.

When I plug the camera into the computer, nothing happens, however as soon as I unplug it the script triggers the camera and continues shooting!!!???

I used STICK software to setup CHDK on the camera and then added the Flight Riot, no interval/remote switch script.See script and link to STICK below.

http://zenoshrdlu.com/stick/stick.html

@title Remote switch AP
print “Flight Riot No Delay Interval”

:loop
if is_key “remote” then shoot
sleep 0
goto “loop”

end

I then re installed CHDK not using STICK software and still same thing happening. I have seen a couple other people having this problem too.

Any ideas on how to get this to work would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

B