My first time seeing Ardupilot interesting, I use Tattu 2x 6S 22000mah on my Hobbywing X9, JIYI, SIYI MK15, 25L spray drone. I go lower than 42v jumps up heaps as soon as I land. Just changing over now to 14S 22000mah smart battery, easier than changing two 6S ones. Crazy the amount of weight they can lift.
@@timarcher52 I’m actually got it opened up as just changing out my spray system for bigger pump & centrifugal nozzles so I’ll do a video tomorrow for you.
excellent project!!, i will also make a hexacopter with hobbywing h6m motors, i am excited to see someone document the configuration of the hobbywing motors, thank you very much, greetings from lima peru
I am working on getting a holybro quad 500 setup, and plan to go on to a bigger hex project when I get the four under control. Greetings from Florida USA.
Thank you for the recommendation. I've actually already watched all your videos and I'm looking forward to the new ones you upload. It's very well documented. I hope you get to work with Siyi, I see they have good offerings. I've always worked with Herelink and now I'm thinking of getting the Siyi MK32 + Siyi HM30 + Siyi ZR30 + Siyi AI tracking module. This is because Herelink uses a very simple remote with few buttons and doesn't update its microUSB port.@@timarcher52
Super interessting Videos, I learned a lot. Unfortunatelly too expensiv for me but that is a dream built. Perhaps some where in the future if Im lucky 😅 But for what do you build it?
It's really just for personal learning and as a fun hobby. This brings together many disciplines allowing me to continue to learn and experiment with electronics, software, and engineering.
Have acquired a SIYI a8 mini + controller/link. The controller software runs a SIYI version of QGC that may be old and have problems. Namely my drone is a Holybro x500 and is not in there configuration library. Thus I can't configure, run and operate drone from QGC. Have talked to their customer support about this and they aren't responding. Also, there are three battery parameters that have changed bat_xxx to bat1_xxx that throw errors when not in parameter download as current code has bat1_xxx. Note that android QGC is somewhat watered down and limits what one can do.........I thought you may be interested in this as you were considering another more expensive SIYI camera. Hope to see you on line again soon.
@yancymuu4977 one more question: do you have to use their version of qgroundcontrol? I was hoping to stream it's video stream through HDMI to my Herelink and see the video. I guess you might need their qgc app to control the camera though and change its orientation?
@@timarcher52 I have downloaded android version of QGC from the QGC website/github and it runs and it is up-to-date with my model of drone. So far it seems to work, but I can't say for sure it supports all the capabilities of official SIYI version.
Again - watching your project with great interest. Really a great battery! Will you be doing any videos of setting up a simulation environment? I have been working getting gazebo running for PX4 and have found it frustratingly difficult. It has to run on linux, and I'm a windows user. ArduPilot also seems to be using gazebo if I'm not mistaken. Have you made any progress selecting a camera?
@@yancymuu4977 not sure if I'll be setting up a simulation environment. Something I'll have to look into. For the camera, I'm thinking the Siyi ZR30 at the moment. I really want thermal capabilities, but I may have to avoid that now due to price.
@@timarcher52 just looked at the zr30, and it's very nice, and also mavlink compatible. Maybe I can splurge for something like that. First I thought I would attempt to turn my rpi into a diy mavlink camera. So far I have (with help of discord supporters) managed to get mavproxy and mavsdk to run on native rpi os. Rpi os does a good job of supporting camera interface which I was unable to make work with regular Linux. Simulation may be useful for me as there is a simulated mavlink camera which if I can get it to work would help to understand how everything communicates. Again thanks for sharing your project.
