Is it possible to use the “Trigger camera at set distance intervals” in Qgroundcontrol on Pixfalcon hardware? Trouble is, that Pixfalcon only have the 8 main outputs, not any Aux outputs. I fly a flying wing, so I do have spare main outputs, but I don´t know how to enable them for use as camera trig…

Hi, Add me as someone else looking to do this. Remapping the AUX1 and AUX2 to a spare PWM output on the Pixfalcon would be very useful. I have 8 “motor” outputs but only need 4, that leaves another 4 I could be using for aux servo’s (e.g. landing gear) and/or gimbals. I’m setting up the dev environ…

@LorenzMeier - Would be great if you could write code to a re-map and drive PWM Aux1->4 over to the unused M5-M8 pins for us PixFalcon users ; add a CLI command adv-param to switch these PWM to those Aux maps for Quad. So far don’t know anybody using it for Hex or Octa - Being so small it’s common…

I agree that being able to selectively map motor outputs and aux outputs to the available ‘motor’ outs would be very useful for driving a gimbal and other ancillaries.

Dear Mr. Lorenz, I understood that PixFalcon does not have the AUX to trigger a camera. Can it be patched to achieve so or alternatively use the PicoSwitch Relay ( https://www.dimensionengineering.com/products/picoswitch ) when using it on an Octacopter? Thanks and regards Khemraj

Is this still an active topic? I have not been able to find any suggestions or working solutions for mapping the camera trigger signal to a main pwm port. If this has been solved or is in the process, please point me in the right direction :slight_smile: Best Regards Johannes Friis

Did this go anywhere. I’m keen to do autocamera trigger as well

Hello! I found a solution to your issue which I recently acquired. Is quite simple actually. If you still have the problem I can help you on making any camera function with pixfalcon. Cheers!

Would you be kind and explain how you went about triggering the camera with a pixfalcon? I’m only using the Pixfalcon as a camera trigger and a data collector for the logs so for my case, i have all 8 main-out ports available, but no AUX

Hi Agdroner. I would certainly be very interested. Please let us hear more. Best regards Jakob Thrane

Sure thing! We are using two cameras: MAPIR: you just have to make a ground connection to RC channel 7 and activate the trigger function (rc7_function), set your values and there you go. Canon with CHDK: You will need a switch for a 5V output. You can that the 5V input from the PM cable directly …

Camera trigger using Pixfalcon

Al_B July 4, 2018, 8:48pm 24

Hi Mitchell,

I thought about that too so I did here. The MANUAL CONTROL LOST message was related to this issue with the ESP unit. Thanks, and Happy 4th!

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