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Manual Headtracking Based "Ground Station" OSD hint #5429

Closed darvin closed 4 years ago

darvin commented 4 years ago

Current Behavior

User flies FPV. His goggles are equipped with head tracking. Yaw and pitch of head tracker are sent to the iNAV flight controller via receiver channel, there are un unutilised. User doesn't want to use yaw and pitch of his head for anything besides proposed feature. iNav is correctly setup with GPS coordinates of "Home" (approximate position of User) iNav correctly reads out GPS coordinates of the aircraft its installed on

Desired Behavior

Ability to utilize head tracker to give user a visual hint through OSD where to point their head to look directly at the aircraft (for better video signal pickup)

Suggested Solution

iNav installed on aircraft knows GPS position of aircraft, its altitude, GPS position of "home", its altitude. Current yaw/pitch of head tracker is supplied through the optional receiver channels. After initial pan (yaw) orientation "look at the model and press stick combination while unarmed", its easy to calculate the exact angle

add the UI to select and enable "Manual Headtracking Based "Ground Station" OSD hint", yaw and pitch of head antenna tracker. add a special symbol in OSD. Proposed indication - just a symbol, turn your head so it would be in the crosshair

Who does this impact? Who is this for?

All fpv users with directed VRX antenna installed on googles and head trackers who are not using tracking ground station for flights.

Majority of FPV glasses have module bays to mount antennas. Majority of FPV glasses have headtracking.

Head tracking is commonly unused for drone flights or fixed wing flights without servo head tracking setup

darvin commented 4 years ago

Additionally, output “absolute heading to the aircraft from home” to telemetry data.

This way pilot can use a simple traditional compass to regain lost vtx connection:

User lost vtx connection. User takes off the glasses, looks for absolute heading to the aircraft from home on their transmitter telemetry output screen, turns to orient themselves that way, puts on goggles back - connection regained

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