sneezy wrote:Looks like I monologuing on this thread a bit
I did a flight test today with a newly completed custom built quad and the Arduino mini IO-board with the MavLink to FrSky firmware V0.5, and took a photo of the Taranis telemetry screen for info.
Before I mention that though I did have a win with the reset issue. I increased the Telem_delay parameter via the Mission Planner from 0 to 10 seconds as suggested by Bo, and that seemed to have helped today as I had the telemetry reading OK without any reset. What this probably means is the IO-board firmware needs some work to handle bad or incomplete data frames at start up.
Moving on. Now that I'm paying more attention to the actual data values being displayed by the Taranis I see that only about half the data values match what they are supposed to measure.
T1 doesn't change with flight mode, or seem to change at all AFAIK.
T2 is nonsense, or I'm in 9D fix mode on the GPS
Hdg (Heading) is spot on correct
Alt is right most of the time but flickers to crazy values occasionally.
Cell could be right.
Cells is off the planet, it had a 3S pack attached, and the MP reads the real battery volts fine when plugged in.
Curr and Cnsp read nothing at all but for a random flash of something too big once in a while (when taking the photo the Quad was spooled up on the ground at about 20% throttle). Amps reads fine in the MP.
Fuel reading might actually be right, it does read 99 when I plug in a fresh charged pack.
RPM (down the bottom strip) reads about 1500 when Disarmed and about 3000 when the APM is Armed.
Power reads 0 (if Curr reads 0 then that's expected).
Speed may be OK as the Quad was stationary.
Does anyone with a Taranis get better results than this ?
Hoping it's just something I've not setup right and the firmware is better for other people.
Martin
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