Adding UXV Technologies controllers and radios to the docs
Hey, I’m documenting the UXV Technologies controllers and radios we use to control PX4 vehicles and want to get this into the official docs. Some of our customers run these on PX4 vehicles so figured it’s worth adding. Purely technical, no promo intent, just want it to be easier for commercial users to actually use PX4 with this hardware.
Question 1: where should the UXV controllers go? Two options:
@Zdeno_Sekerak Thanks for reaching out.
From a docs point of view the important thing is that it is obvious to someone reading the docs whether it is relevent to them.
So if these products are entirely locked to your ecosystem (i.e. only useful on your drones) then we might have a simple page that points to your own docs - i.e. a thin entry point. That makes sense because you don’t want to have to gate through us to keep things maintained.
However if these are a reasonable commercial choice for some random person who wants to use them with their drone, then these are welcome as equivalent peers.
I don’t know much about this, but I think under Data Links makes sense. I’d try this, but I might move it depending on exactly what it does (once I’ve read it). The question comes down really to how this would extend if someone else came along with similar products.
The products are intended to be used with any drone running essentially any software (including PX4 using QGC), as they have an Ethernet (and sometimes serial and USB) output. I believe they are a very reasonable commercial choice for someone building a vehicle with PX4.
As part of testing the controllers, I built a vehicle running PX4 with a classic Pixhawk flight controller, for example. So I believe this would be a useful addition to the PX4 docs.
I can also have a look at that, as I have used joystick output myself to control a vehicle through a wireless Ethernet connection.
The SRM Radios are more like an interface standard that integrates various radios from different brands (including Microhard, Doodle Labs, and others), which UXV Technologies created. Therefore, it is difficult to place them into one category specifically. The radios are now a Blue UAS standard for swappable radio modules, so UXV Technologies is not the only company currently working on such a product.
Therefore, on a second note, I think it might make sense to use the following structure:
Data Links > Swappable Radio Modules (SRM) > [individual radios listed here, for example: “SRM-S-DL+ by UXV Technologies”]
