Manual Control of APM with GCS

Posted by Jovan Munroe on March 9, 2014 at 6:31pm

Hello Guys,

Has anyone successfully been able to manually control their ArduRover over serial connection without a radio transmitter. I am looking to control my rover with a joystick connected to either QGroundControl or HK GCS. I have also tried enabling ALLOW_RC_OVERRIDE in APM_Config.h and cant seem to get the APM to register joystick commands. If someone has any insight or workarounds to allow this please let me know. 

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    Chris Anderson March 9, 2014 at 8:34pm

    HK GCS hasn't been supported for years (where did you find mention of it??). QGroundControl is not designed for Rover. I'd recommend Mission Planner. 

    • Jovan Munroe > Chris Anderson March 10, 2014 at 4:18am

      For some reason I over looked the joystick option present in Mission Planner. That works pretty well but I notice that the output pwm using ArduRover 2.45 do not correlate to the full range of the throttle/pitch spectrum (ie full reverse is not possible) using skid steering. Is there a setting I can change to allow this?

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