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An intuitive and customizable cross-platform ground control station for remote vehicles of all types.
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Camera Tilt mini-widget suggestion: Show in degrees and with zero looking straight ahead #676

Open pkmiles opened 10 months ago

pkmiles commented 10 months ago

Might not even be a Cockpit thing... (vs. core software). Is it possible to change camera tilt to:

ES-Alexander commented 10 months ago

Agreed that this would be useful.

This could be handled entirely in the frontend (with an offset and a scaling factor), but it would also be good to use/support the autopilot parameters for vehicles that have them (MNT_ANG(MIN/MAX)_TILT for ArduPilot < 4.3, MNTn_PITCH_(MIN/MAX) for ArduPilot >= 4.3.0, not sure about PX4).* If we are using parameters (or supporting an offset) we'll need a dedicated mini-widget for it rather than the current default for the VeryGenericIndicator.

*NOTE: For servo-type tilt mounts it would also be nice to support changing the servo PWM values (the servo used in the BlueROV2 can rotate to close to ±180° when the servo range is set appropriately beyond the 1100-1900µs default limits), but this might be out of scope for Cockpit right now, since BlueOS is currently in charge of peripheral setup and configuration

rafaellehmkuhl commented 10 months ago

I'm curious as I don't have a servo-actuated camera: right now, 50% is the 0deg angle and 100% is upward max? Does it change from vehicle to vehicle?

As @ES-Alexander stated, for more detailed logic, like using the vehicle parameters, a dedicated widget would be needed, but I think this would be totally fine, as the idea of the VeryGenericIndicator is not to substitute everything, but just to help people see variables that do not have dedicated widgets yet or that just need to be showed on a generic way.