Connecting i2c device on voxl2
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@Aaky , i will be back to office on Wednesday and will follow up with replies to your questions.
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@Alex-Kushleyev No problem Alex.
In the meantime @Eric-Katzfey if you can provide me some insights on my following query ?@Aaky said in Connecting i2c device on voxl2:
I have one more query. I have a gimbal which expects PX4's Attitude to be fed into it for better attitude control of gimbal (Typically every good gimbal expects Autopilot's attitude to be fed into it). So for this my gimbal has UART port which can capture mavlink packets been broadcasted by autopilot and act accordingly. Can we do this integration using VOXL's ESC UART port to broadcast mavlink packets into my gimbal's UART port in the same way like any Pixhawk Cube based Autopilot running PX4 can output mavlink packets over telem port?
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@Aaky If you are running PX4 on VOXL2 then you cannot use the DSP UARTs outside of PX4. And within PX4 all data is transferred as topics, not mavlink. To do what you want you need a UART on the apps processor side (available on certain add on boards) and have voxl-mavlink-server route the appropriate mavlink messages to it.
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@Eric-Katzfey Okay. So normal Telem ports as they are available on Pixhawk Autopilot running vanilla PX4 arent available on VOXL-PX4? The application processor side integration sounds complex to my architecture since I already have one Add-on board sitting over VOXL providing USB connection for my Doodle labs radio. Any other feasible option?
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@Aaky Correct. VOXL2 uses UDP for it's Mavlink telemetry, not UART TELEM ports like on a microcontroller based autopilot. But, voxl-mavlink-server should be able to route Mavlink messages over an apps processor based UART such that it would be similar to a TELEM port. Which add-on board is it? Is it something custom or one of our boards?
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@Eric-Katzfey Thanks for the information. The add on board is Microhard modem B2B board without any Microhard radio in it acting just as USB port provider for my doodle labs modem. How can I get UART port if I am using this board?
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@Eric-Katzfey Eric, Say I connect UART from this expansion board, What all changes I need to do in voxl-mavlink-server in order to broadcast PX4 attitude mavlink packets to my gimbal? I understand this UART is meant for external flight controller communication so will it work straight out of the box?
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@Aaky That is not a standard configuration that we test with so likely will not work out of the box. But it shouldn't be too hard to adapt voxl-mavlink-server to your use case. And if you make changes that you think would benefit other users we would gladly accept a Pull Request with the updates.
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@Aaky Yes, you could use the UART exposed on that M0125 expansion board.
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@Aaky The Microhard board does not expose an apps processor UART but you could use a USB to UART adapter to connect to the Gimbal via one of the USB ports.
