Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi v.4.0 - Spektrum radio config issue

[Piotr Esden-Tempski]

Hi Michal,

The radio files have no effect on spektrum receivers as they transmit their 
values over serial (not PPM) and bypass the whole PPM configuration and 
decoding system.

Which channel is which you can see in 
sw/airborne/arch/stm32/subsystems/radio_control/spektrum_arch.h

It is the right thing to use the "workaround" as you call it. This is actually 
the way to do it.

Cheers Piotr

On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Michal Podhradsky <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> I have a question about the radio config xml file (in /conf/radios).
> We are using Spektrum DX7s as a transmitter and one Spektrum satellite 
> receiver. And I had troubles assigning the channels to radio controls (MODE 
> switch and KILL switch).
> 
> Our configuration is following:
> 
> In the airframe config:
> 
>   <firmware name="rotorcraft">
>     <target name="ap" board="lia_1.1">
>       <subsystem name="radio_control" type="spektrum"/>
> ...
> 
> 
> And the Spektrum radio config file (spektrum is:
> <!DOCTYPE radio SYSTEM "radio.dtd">
> <radio name="Spektrum" data_min="900" data_max="2100" sync_min ="5000" 
> sync_max ="15000" pulse_type="NEGATIVE">
>  <channel ctl="left_stick_vert" function="THROTTLE"     max="2050" 
> neutral="950" min="950" average="0"/>
>  <channel ctl="right_stick_horiz" function="ROLL"    min="950" neutral="1500" 
> max="2050" average="0"/>
>  <channel ctl="right_stick_vert" function="PITCH"      min="2050" 
> neutral="1500" max="950" average="0"/>
>  <channel ctl="left_stick_horiz" function="YAW" min="950" neutral="1500" 
> max="2050" average="0"/>
>  <channel ctl="switch_c" function="UNUSED"    min="2050" neutral="1500" 
> max="948" average="1"/>
>  <channel ctl="switch_g" function="MODE"    min="2050" neutral="1500" 
> max="950" average="1"/>
>  <channel ctl="aux2" function="KILL_SWITCH"     min="2050" neutral="1496" 
> max="948" average="1"/>
> </radio>
> 
> So MODE should be channel 5 and KILL_SWITCH channel 6.
> 
> However, neither RADIO_KILL_SWITCH nor RADIO_MODE is defined. The RADIO_MODE 
> is later defined in 
> http://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v4.0/sw/airborne/arch/stm32/subsystems/radio_control/spektrum_arch.h/#L62
>  but the KILL_SWITCH remains undefined.
> 
> A workaround is to define both switched in the airframe config file, for 
> example:
>     <!--define name="RADIO_MODE" value="RADIO_GEAR"/-->
>     <!--define name="RADIO_KILL_SWITCH" value="RADIO_AUX2"/-->
> but it does not seem to be the best option.
> 
> There is a spectrum header file 
> http://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v4.0/sw/airborne/subsystems/radio_control/spektrum_dx7se.h
>  but it is not included in compilation.
> 
> Also, changing settings in the Spectrum config xml file does not make any 
> difference in radio behavior (e.g. the channels and min/max values stays the 
> same regardless of the config file). 
> 
> 
> 
> Is this a desired behavior (i.e. moving away from the radio config and define 
> everything in the airframe config or within the code) or is it a problem with 
> compilation settings? How would I assign radio channels to switches in the 
> radio config?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Michal
> 
> 
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