Typhoon H 480 PX4 v1.10 (Stability issues ;-)

DoomMeister · Jul 14, 2024

Posts dealing with Reverse engineering of CGO3+ and UART were moved to this new thread Reverse engineering CGO3+ UART

Vaklin · Jul 14, 2024

As I see, after a few years, there is some positive movement in hard understandable things.

If someone is still interested in providing a remote ID for H480, the position in the middle of the gimbal UART link is the best point. ESP32 will be more than enough...

1midniterider · Jul 21, 2024

I was able to get the build process further along. In my build environment I was missing an Ubuntu app, "python-is-python3". After installing it the actual build process started. However, something is still amiss. The process is not locating several include files. Manually adjusting CCFLAGS to prevent warnings from causing errors took it another step forward but, it is still not finding the proper include files. Something is still amiss.

1midniterider · Jul 30, 2024

Has anyone made any progress on getting the build to complete?

korakora · Apr 19, 2025

Gentlemen, Sorry late to joint one more thunderbird born in Indonesia Thank you for tremendous work!

h-elsner · Apr 19, 2025

I don't have this effect with the landing gears. Did you have changed the channel number for the gears?

Vaklin · Apr 19, 2025

Try to up LDG manually (by remote) and test the automation.

korakora · Apr 19, 2025

h-elsner said:
I don't have this effect with the landing gears. Did you have changed the channel number for the gears?

no you are good i made a lot of changes (too happy coz now i can change anything i like) so not surprised actually, i should to leave default parameters from you @1st

korakora · Apr 19, 2025

Vaklin said:
Try to up LDG manually (by remote) and test the automation.

@05:00 that descend doing by RTL auto land, but after that i try to take control for landing but the symtoms still remains it deploy after certain meteres above and back to retract under it even the fligh mode are on stab & poshold mode no changes

korakora · May 8, 2025

Sorry For ThunderBIRD only

*because lack of SERIAL port, i must use ESP32 to make some extended port (FYI: Serial1 in thunderbird aint working), so it means i'm not guaranty if use original thunderbird will also work or not (i made huge change into it also), but yes it start with ThunderBIRD without it will no way can achieve like this

h-elsner · May 9, 2025

Is this an optical flow sensor? On which port did you connect it?
Do you know where Serial 1 is assigned to HW port? Serial1 (tty1?) not working means no HW or no SW function?

Are you able to compile, link and make the Thunderbird FW? I failed to do that.

Vaklin · May 9, 2025

Are you able to compile, link and make the Thunderbird FW?
+1

korakora · May 9, 2025

ah i'm always doing fast moving project means i will leave the project after i get achieved with my goal and start another project, i will reproduce again to be sure after i'm finish with my another project (my brain cant doing multitask) so one by one :lol

but if my memory still remain, yes we can't compile as is
i forgot did the problem with the toolchain or i did download the git source from the px4 directly and replace some files with thunderbird i'm not sure thats was 3 weeks ago
will catch this thread again after i found out

the Serial1 (red circle) are free not attach to anything, i ported once tobe usefull, yes it working but as soon this typhoon armed that serial stop responding so i considered not useful

h-elsner · May 10, 2025

Those pins belongs to ESC control.

h-elsner · Jun 9, 2025

I'm happy have the CGO3+ camera fully working on Thunderbird now; pan, tilt, pan mode, and tilt mode. I have changed pan mode "Position" (middle position of the switch) to "Angle" which is the same H520/E90 has on this position.
I placed the ESP32 outside because a nodeMCU is too big to have it inside and a FW update is much easier.

Vaklin · Jun 9, 2025

A GPS module added will cover all the rest of possible functionality .

h-elsner · 2025-06-17T09:39:03-0400

Vaklin said:
A GPS module added will cover all the rest of possible functionality .

I have no need for this.

Added a description here:

http://h-elsner.mooo.com/pdf/Thunderbird_CGO3P_control.pdf

dylanfm · 2025-06-17T12:31:59-0400

h-elsner said:
I have no need for this.

Added a description here:

http://h-elsner.mooo.com/pdf/Thunderbird_CGO3P_control.pdf

So if I understand this correctly, the ST16 connects to the CGO3+ via wifi like normal. Then the ESP32 reads the serial from the CGO3+, converts that serial data into pan and tilt commands, and feeds them back to the CGO3+ over serial?

h-elsner · 2025-06-17T12:52:53-0400

dylanfm said:
So if I understand this correctly, the ST16 connects to the CGO3+ via wifi like normal. Then the ESP32 reads the serial from the CGO3+, converts that serial data into pan and tilt commands, and feeds them back to the CGO3+ over serial?

Yes, exactly.
Another possibility is to read the data from SR24 and create the same control messages and send it to the gimbal of the CGO3+ or to a C23/E90 camera (and possibly all other newer Yuneec cameras). This is also tested and can be used for other RCs that do not have Dual Band Control Redundancy.
A use case would be to equip a Q500 with CGO3+ and ST12. With the knob at the ST12 you could turn around the camera (but have the landing gears on video ;-).

dylanfm · 2025-06-17T13:22:50-0400

h-elsner said:
Yes, exactly.
Another possibility is to read the data from SR24 and create the same control messages and send it to the gimbal of the CGO3+ or to a C23/E90 camera (and possibly all other newer Yuneec cameras). This is also tested and can be used for other RCs that do not have Dual Band Control Redundancy.
A use case would be to equip a Q500 with CGO3+ and ST12. With the knob at the ST12 you could turn around the camera (but have the landing gears on video ;-).

That is cool! I have used an ESP32 to create the pan and tilt commands to the CGO3+ from the SR24 data in the past. I know I have heard of the redundant controls over WIFI, but I had never thought to try to use it. I could see using this for controlling some stuff exclusively over wifi without an SR24 at all (RC cars, robots, etc). Does the channel data get sent over WIFI even if the ST16 isn't paired to an SR24?