Connecting FLIR Cameras
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I would like to use a FLIR camera with VOXL Flight. I have a FLIR VUE Pro R camera. I am not fully sure how I should connect the camera to VOXL Flight and how to setup VOXL. My ultimate goal is to capture still images at a pre-defined distance. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
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@Maziar-Fooladi It really depends on exactly how you want to use that camera. We don't have any experience with it but looking at the datasheet you can store all images and video in the unit on an SD card. There is an RS-232 port that can be used for control and configuration. That should be able to be used via UART directly from Voxl using the libvoxl_io library to create a custom application. Also, the datasheet talks about mavlink so maybe it can be attached directly to flight core and controlled via PX4 / ArduPilot.
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@Eric-Katzfey Thank you for your prompt response. The camera has an accessory cable that connects to PWMs on VOXL (page 12 in user manual the accessory cable pin outs are explained). I think I should connect the accessory cable to J1002 on the VOXL and PWM 3 & 4 to PWMs on VOXL. However, I am not sure how I can trigger the camera using PWMs on VOXL.
Using the FLIR Pro App, I can set PWM 3 or 4 of the accessory cable to be used as to start/stop the camera but I have no experience on how to configure VOXL to trigger PWMs.
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@Maziar-Fooladi That would then be controlled directly by PX4. I'll defer to the PX4 community or to our team member @modaltb
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We have never used the Flir Vue camera. The only experiments we have done with aux pwms is documented here. Hopefully that helps.