UK OpenLRS Guide and Future Development

[gekoch]

Nice to see that someone is also developing the system.
I'm right now building an antenna tracker for the OpenLRS but still I got some problems...
I do also send the GPS data parsed to the ground station where an Arduino does Display
all the Stuff on a 2.8" Touchscreen like speed altitude etc with an update rate of 2Hz.
The GPS data will be sent with a beginning "B" and a ending "*" so without a Checksum
and had never a problem with that.


Right now the Servos aren't that precises to put the Antenna into the direction of
the plane. Will probably work with a compass to get more accurate pointing.



Display shows from left to right:
strength of RSSI, distance to start coordinates, direction pointing of the plane in degrees (seen from north), altitude, speed, satellites, graph shows RSSi level
When max button is pressed it will show max values of altitude speed and distance from home.





Would be nice to collaborate :)

(sorry for the bad english but I'm from Switzerland :))

[thundead]

wohoo great work gekoch,

Would love to collaborate :) I am currently focusing on improving the range and making the system booster compatible but after I finish the fw I'll see what we could do for telemetry.

As shown in my other posts, I attempted in creating an antenna tracker based on the system but stopped because I didn't like the idea of having my transmitter tethered to the antenna.

I managed to get the pan and tilt system to work properly ( I think ) so I'll dig up the old fw and drop you a PM. maybe you can use something from it.

Think the best approach is to use two systems, one for antenna tracker and the other for RC control. The more stuff you add onto the firmware, the more laggy the RC link becomes ( laggy servos etc)

Mihai.

[gekoch]

Yes you're right telemetry is nice to have.
As soon as the weather gets better I do some tests with my firmware to see
how the system works.

How about the diversity capability of the the OpenLRS receiver/transmitter chip
can we do there something?

Keep up the good work thx,
Andy

[thundead]

thnk you saw this thread but here is the link anyway
http://www.fpvuk.org/forum/index.php?topic=3642.0

that includes my current mods for the lrs system.

regarding diversity, my current fw uses a slave RX as a backup receiver but it's not compatible with telemetry yet.

Regards,
Mihai.

Yes you're right telemetry is nice to have.
As soon as the weather gets better I do some tests with my firmware to see
how the system works.

How about the diversity capability of the the OpenLRS receiver/transmitter chip
can we do there something?

Keep up the good work thx,
Andy