Thanks for the help! I was putting it on gimbal roll and gimbal pitch instead of channels. 😆 After watching your video and 2 minutes on the computer.... ALL is working. Thanks again!
Glad to hear that you have it working. Your question on the first video in the series is proving useful for lots of other pilots! Interestingly, all of this detail is on the channel already but its great to have a video like this to make it easier.. Thanks again for getting into the spirit of the series and Happy flying!
It's crazy how long this stuff has been around and I had no idea. Before UA-cam/internet I had no access to this sort of thing. I'm just glad that I finally have the time, money, and resources to enjoy FPV RC stuff now haha.
Awesome topic. No one talks about head trackers and PTZ any more... I haven't done this myself since way back with ardupilot, I think it was on an actual Arduino board with 10 DOF or something zip tied to sticks or some other junk I slapped together haha! I probably watched a Painless360 video as a guide back then! I'm glad to see things like iNav developing and the community steadily growing. Just want to say Thanks for all your hard work Lee. I know running a channel like this isn't easy (although I'm sure it's also fun! LOL) Last year, I got back into RC aircraft after about a 5 year hiatus. I was glad to see guys like you and a few others from when I was a baby pilot are still active every week. Always a trustworthy, informative, useful, and correct source of information. "We" (the whole friggin community) appreciate the crap out of you. Especially guys like me who don't have any other pilots around to learn from and have to work this stuff out solely through internet research and youtube videos. Thanks a ton!
This answered my question about this and also about extending pwm endpoints for 180 degree servos in iNAV. Thank you so much, and keep up the great work!!!
Good video Lee, Thank you, If you slow down the movement in the TX Open-Tx settings you get slower smoother movement of the servo/camera regardless of the speed your finger moves the control. I'm sure you know this Lee LOL this note is for your readers :-)
Thank-you for all the great info.Thanks for including your Thingiverse link.3D printing is a step I'm hesitant to take,but luckily my local library will do small jobs for a dollar per hour print time.
This is awesome. Now if you could just do a tutorial on how to do the open-source head tracker to add to DJI goggles that would be great. I know there are tutorials online, but I would much rather follow along with you.
Nice video. I have the same set up as Dooly. I use the head tracker in my Skyzone goggles to run the pan and tilt and have a runcam hybrid mounted on it.
I have a cheap 3d printer. It's a Cocoon Create (a rebrand of the Wanhao Duplicator i3 V2). I purchased it from Aldi here in Australia. From memory it was about $300. I just upgraded the extruder with a Flexion Extruder Single Bundle and now it's Kiss Ass! I love printing with ABS and it does so flawlessly. Total cost so far is about $600 AUD now. Not too bad.
How about a DIY arduino set up for the headtracker? We have tried to make one using a nano and a mpu 6050 gyro,didnt work. Is it just the GY-85 sensor that only works for the programming available? Cant buy a headtracker anywhere,hope you can help 👍🏻
In response. We're using a gy521 gyro and Dennis Frie's code doesn't support mpu6050 gy521 gyro but supports the gy85. I've been trying to incorporate the gy521 code into Dennis's to no avail.
Awesome video Lee... I had a question about iNav and Flaperons, is it possible to use the 2 aileron servos to mix in flaps via inav? and how to set it up? cheers.
I woke up this morning going, i need to familiarize myself with pan tilt on iNav, thanks man. Quick one though, I want to use this on a RC car so would be ideal if it was stabilised. I believe that you can stabilise the pan tilt using the inav settings?
Thanks, Lee! Setting up my first pan in INAV on my albabird. I'm not a patreon fan. Don't like monthly billings. More of a pay once a year kinda guy when I have the cake. And I have some cake now. How can I send you a slice?
Hi Jim, understood as many don't like the Patreon idea. You can use the PayPal link in the video description. There is exclusive content, monthly LIVEStreams and many other benefits for Patreons. Thank you for even considering supporting the channel. It is appreciated!
I had added an improvised pan/tilt bypassing INAV directly to receiver outputs. I may try to switch this based on this video, but I wonder how much control you can achieve with this? My problem is that my servos are too fast resulting in a herky-jerky camera moves. I'd like to achieve more cinematic motion and Im not sure you could get this by just lowering rates. My controller is a secondary thumbstick so I'd like to make motion relative (to a limit) rather than absolute. That is to say, I move joystick left and it moves maybe 4 steps left per second. I have read there is a way to achieve this with a Taranis & LUA script, but so far I have not succeeded. Any suggestions?
Another very useful video ... Something most of us would like to try . Do you always pre-assemble , program & test all the various electrical components . Before installation . Also I came across a box with a Pixfalcon 4 kit ( from a few years ago ) that I never used . Is it still possible to update & use ? Thank You Sir ....
I always set things up and test them before install. See my builds. I didn't used to but trying to figure out why something isn't working when it is glued into place 6 inches into a model that you can no longer easily get to is a painful lesson. ;) Happy flying!
Awesome video, Painless! My question is, can you add headtracking? I cannot seem to figure out mine. as I am using crossfire with Sbus. I would like to use it with INAV and my FC is the thing. It works fine just straight to the servo pins PWM style but will it work for me with the FC and Sbus?
Is there a way to configure a button/switch on the transmitter to recenter the camera forward? Instead of having to manually recenter every time after panning or tilting.
In your opinion could you use Inav on a mini quad to make something that's more like your commercial camera drones? Also, do you know of any pan tilt servos that could handle say a gopro 10?
Hi Lee, I connected my pan servo to ch7 of the Speedybee F405 wing, the blue output on inav is moving with my TX16S rotary button, but the servo doesn't move...Of course tried with an other servo, nothing, an idea? thank you!
Trying this and the servo (I need pan only) centers but won't move with the slider. Everything seems to be working in the reciever and output tabs. I'm using a tx16s with the inav fixed wing group opentx model v2. Running a fullsize crossfire and micro v2 RX. board is matek f405 wing.
Hello. Any idea why slider on my Taranis is not centered on 1000? I want the middle of the slider to be 1000 like on yours. However even with the slider on the min setting it is still at 1000. Slide half way up and it gets to 2000. I can't get it to go to zero on minimum slider setting.
Hello Lee, another great video but I have one little question. Setting up my head-tracker on my Spektrum radio was easy thanks to your earlier videos. But now, I have the Radiomaster TX16s and I can't seem to connect my Quanum head-tracker to the radio. through the jack. I know I'm doing something wrong but I can't pin point it. Any chance of you posting a video on how to set up this head-tracker with the TX16s? Thank you in advance and keep up the good work.
You'd like need to find an output on the controller that can output the PWM and use this process. Many quadcopter flight times controllers don't have spare pins for things like that. Best of luck
Hi Painless, Great video, I was doing the same, it looks functional but I get a strange behavior, maybe you can clear this out, The Tx show smooth servo while sliding but in inav (outputs and receiver) it is jumping in fixed stairs like a 6 positions switch, It causes the pan/tilt to move robotically instead of smooth. What can be the problem?
Hello Lee , I wondered if you could help me please. I know this might be a long shot , but im trying to find some update firmware for my Quanum 3 axis head tracker. When i plug it into my computer , the green light appears but the GUI states that their is no firmware. Im at a loose end ??????....😥😥😥
I have the f411 wse board and on my pan and tilt the pan servo only works on rc yaw. In angle mode if I pan it’s normal but if I use cruise mode the pan actually turns the plane. Any idea of what I’m doing wrong. It’s in a Dart XL so I don’t use rudder
I have the same Radio TX16s my left and right sliders are on channel 15 and 16 when I give the inputs i can see it only Radio but the same does not reflect in Inav receivers tab I see all other channel input except the 2 knobs on top and 2 sliders which are channel 13,14,15,16 respectively Can you please help me not sure whats the issue here Thanks in advance
I have a quad I'm building the flight controller doesn't have servo outputs but does have 4 extra servo outputs can they be re mapped to drive a pan and tilt camera servo setup
Not sure, Betaflight had some cool resource mapping stuff so I'd look to see if anyone with the same flight controller has figured it out.. Best of luck!
hey lee, im new and having a bit of a problem with my headtracker in inav. I got it working and i see the inputs moving in the receiver tab in inav when i move my goggles around. However, i am not getting any movement on my pan/tilt gimbal. please note that it seems like i can only use TR1 and TR2 (as opposed to tr5 and tr6 in the video) as my trainer channels for orqa fpv.one pilot built in headtracker. I noticed in inav i am not able to select RC channel 1 and 2 for headtracking, im assuming 1-4 are already being used up by elevons.. what should i do? should i just not use built in headtracker and use an external HT instead (hopefully preconfig tr5 and tr6 as pan/tilt respectively)? or is there any way for me to change the behavior of my built in headtracker to use 5 and 6 for pan/tilt instead of 1 and 2.....? theres not much literature out there going over this for the orqas... just ONE guide. also i am on radiomaster tx16s. any help or guidance would be massively appreciated
Channels that the headtracker uses to send the signals to the radio (seen as TR1 etc.) can be added to any output channel on the radio. Usually assigning TR1 to CH7 and TR2 to CH8 would be useful. You should see them in the reciever tab moving..Then forward those to spare PWM outputs... Best of luck
@@Painless360 okay thank you! that being said, i am quite confused on what i need to set as my "inputs" in the inav mixer tab. the input tab on my radio has pan's source set to TR1 and tilt's source set to TR2. radio mixer tab has ch5 and 6 as pan/tilt - pan source TR1, tilt source TR2. and then currently i have servo 5's input set to "RC Channel 5" and servo 6 set to "RC Channel 6".... please highlight what im doing wrong lol i have no idea what im doing. would you be able to expand on "forward those to spare pwm outputs" or direct me to a video of you covering it? sorry for noob questions... i just wanna fly :)
I would argue that handling a 3d printer is a nightmare especially with the cheap ones. You will loose all your time debugging the printer problems instead of building a new aircraft for example. 3d printing issues are countless and very hard to debug and it is a science by itself - over extrude, under extrude, layer separation, stringing, clogging, not sticking to the base plate, correct temp, correct filament flow, wet filament and so much more. You will spend many, many hours dealing with the stupid printer. Unless, I suppose, if you by an expensive one.
He's not lying about what help a 3D printer can be. I have no idea how I've gone so long without one!!
Thanks for the help!
I was putting it on gimbal roll and gimbal pitch instead of channels. 😆
After watching your video and 2 minutes on the computer.... ALL is working. Thanks again!
Glad to hear that you have it working. Your question on the first video in the series is proving useful for lots of other pilots! Interestingly, all of this detail is on the channel already but its great to have a video like this to make it easier.. Thanks again for getting into the spirit of the series and Happy flying!
It's crazy how long this stuff has been around and I had no idea. Before UA-cam/internet I had no access to this sort of thing. I'm just glad that I finally have the time, money, and resources to enjoy FPV RC stuff now haha.
Awesome topic. No one talks about head trackers and PTZ any more... I haven't done this myself since way back with ardupilot, I think it was on an actual Arduino board with 10 DOF or something zip tied to sticks or some other junk I slapped together haha! I probably watched a Painless360 video as a guide back then! I'm glad to see things like iNav developing and the community steadily growing.
Just want to say Thanks for all your hard work Lee. I know running a channel like this isn't easy (although I'm sure it's also fun! LOL) Last year, I got back into RC aircraft after about a 5 year hiatus. I was glad to see guys like you and a few others from when I was a baby pilot are still active every week. Always a trustworthy, informative, useful, and correct source of information. "We" (the whole friggin community) appreciate the crap out of you. Especially guys like me who don't have any other pilots around to learn from and have to work this stuff out solely through internet research and youtube videos. Thanks a ton!
Thank you Josh for taking the time to write that. Very appreciated. Happy flying!
This answered my question about this and also about extending pwm endpoints for 180 degree servos in iNAV. Thank you so much, and keep up the great work!!!
Good video Lee, Thank you, If you slow down the movement in the TX Open-Tx settings you get slower smoother movement of the servo/camera regardless of the speed your finger moves the control. I'm sure you know this Lee LOL this note is for your readers :-)
Thank you.
It was easy to understand, even if I couldn't understand English.
Thanks to you, I think I can get the gimbal working.
Fantastic, Lee! Thanks a lot! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Perfect timing had bought the headtracker awhile back and am just getting a model ready for this ..
Thank-you for all the great info.Thanks for including your Thingiverse link.3D printing is a step I'm hesitant to take,but luckily my local library will do small jobs for a dollar per hour print time.
Check out my 3D printing for RC series. It's not as hard as it looks.. Happy flying
Another excellent video Lee, many thanks, you are a champ!
Very useful advice as always, many thanks Lee.
Keep up the great work and stay safe,
Joe
What a great video I did not realize it was that simple to do that and I have thanks👍👍
Done. One more like for you, Lee
This is awesome. Now if you could just do a tutorial on how to do the open-source head tracker to add to DJI goggles that would be great. I know there are tutorials online, but I would much rather follow along with you.
I have videos that cover that but I'll add a new one to the list! :D
Nice video. I have the same set up as Dooly. I use the head tracker in my Skyzone goggles to run the pan and tilt and have a runcam hybrid mounted on it.
thank you, i just made one and setup in inav thanks to You, thank you.
That’s really useful to know. I will have to try this 👍🏻
super duper helpful, thank you!
Thenks
I have a cheap 3d printer. It's a Cocoon Create (a rebrand of the Wanhao Duplicator i3 V2). I purchased it from Aldi here in Australia. From memory it was about $300. I just upgraded the extruder with a Flexion Extruder Single Bundle and now it's Kiss Ass! I love printing with ABS and it does so flawlessly. Total cost so far is about $600 AUD now. Not too bad.
They are such useful things to have! Happy flying!
Wow I was just gonna start ssetting this up on my sky hunter
Hoping to find a way via tango 2
How about a DIY arduino set up for the headtracker?
We have tried to make one using a nano and a mpu 6050 gyro,didnt work.
Is it just the GY-85 sensor that only works for the programming available?
Cant buy a headtracker anywhere,hope you can help 👍🏻
In response. We're using a gy521 gyro and Dennis Frie's code doesn't support mpu6050 gy521 gyro but supports the gy85. I've been trying to incorporate the gy521 code into Dennis's to no avail.
I've only ever used the mpu specified in the wiki.. Best of luck
@@Painless360 thanks for the quick response. I've bit the bullet and bought the correct mpu to save hours of programming 🤦♂️
@@Painless360 be a good video to do to show us mere mortals
Awesome video Lee... I had a question about iNav and Flaperons, is it possible to use the 2 aileron servos to mix in flaps via inav? and how to set it up? cheers.
Yep, github.com/iNavFlight/inav/wiki/Modes#flaperon best of luck
Thanks, great video!!! Do you know how I can limit the rotation of a 360 degree servo in inav?
You can only limit the PWM range so not sure... Best of luck!
I woke up this morning going, i need to familiarize myself with pan tilt on iNav, thanks man. Quick one though, I want to use this on a RC car so would be ideal if it was stabilised. I believe that you can stabilise the pan tilt using the inav settings?
Yep. Look at the CAMSTAB mode in INAV. Best of luck
Great video. What’s a good 3D printer u recommend
Check out my 3D printing for R/C series on the channel. I have a little FabrikatorII for desktop and an Ender3 for larger prints..
Thanks, Lee! Setting up my first pan in INAV on my albabird. I'm not a patreon fan. Don't like monthly billings. More of a pay once a year kinda guy when I have the cake. And I have some cake now. How can I send you a slice?
Hi Jim, understood as many don't like the Patreon idea. You can use the PayPal link in the video description. There is exclusive content, monthly LIVEStreams and many other benefits for Patreons. Thank you for even considering supporting the channel. It is appreciated!
@@Painless360 Done. Keep up the great work.
I had added an improvised pan/tilt bypassing INAV directly to receiver outputs. I may try to switch this based on this video, but I wonder how much control you can achieve with this? My problem is that my servos are too fast resulting in a herky-jerky camera moves. I'd like to achieve more cinematic motion and Im not sure you could get this by just lowering rates. My controller is a secondary thumbstick so I'd like to make motion relative (to a limit) rather than absolute. That is to say, I move joystick left and it moves maybe 4 steps left per second. I have read there is a way to achieve this with a Taranis & LUA script, but so far I have not succeeded. Any suggestions?
Another very useful video ... Something most of us would like to try . Do you always pre-assemble , program & test all the various electrical components . Before installation . Also I came across a box with a Pixfalcon 4 kit ( from a few years ago ) that I never used . Is it still possible to update & use ? Thank You Sir ....
I always set things up and test them before install. See my builds. I didn't used to but trying to figure out why something isn't working when it is glued into place 6 inches into a model that you can no longer easily get to is a painful lesson. ;) Happy flying!
@@Painless360 another great tip ... Thanks Again Sir
Awesome video, Painless! My question is, can you add headtracking? I cannot seem to figure out mine. as I am using crossfire with Sbus. I would like to use it with INAV and my FC is the thing. It works fine just straight to the servo pins PWM style but will it work for me with the FC and Sbus?
Yes. Check out the other videos in the series... Happy flying
Love the channel very professional. Can try converting a chest laser tag set to work on a rc airplane for tilt pan fpv dog fighting?
Maybe. See my videos on the new FPV combat system.. happy flying
What camera would you use for a plane or fixed wing for a pan and tilt. I'm looking for wide view. clear. not DJI. lol.
See my kit picks video from August last year. Foxeer Falcor, toothless or RunCam phoenix 2 or Hybrid...
Is there a way to configure a button/switch on the transmitter to recenter the camera forward? Instead of having to manually recenter every time after panning or tilting.
Not that I have seen. Best of luck
Excellent!! Can it be used with betaflight?
Not sure about modern versions but this was my video from last time I did it - ua-cam.com/video/N69128cOFPc/v-deo.html
I know this is an old video, but how would you set it to have a switch turn off the servo and essentially recenter it?
Setup a special function on a switch to override the pan channel with the value to center.. Happy flying
In your opinion could you use Inav on a mini quad to make something that's more like your commercial camera drones? Also, do you know of any pan tilt servos that could handle say a gopro 10?
Yes, but you'd have to work on the tuning. Ardupilot is better for larger filming rigs at the moment... happy flying!
Hi Lee, I connected my pan servo to ch7 of the Speedybee F405 wing, the blue output on inav is moving with my TX16S rotary button, but the servo doesn't move...Of course tried with an other servo, nothing, an idea? thank you!
Check it has 5v power as step one.. Best of luck
Trying this and the servo (I need pan only) centers but won't move with the slider. Everything seems to be working in the reciever and output tabs. I'm using a tx16s with the inav fixed wing group opentx model v2. Running a fullsize crossfire and micro v2 RX. board is matek f405 wing.
I'd try it with a basic model setup on the radio in case that model setup is your problem. Best of luck
Hello. Any idea why slider on my Taranis is not centered on 1000? I want the middle of the slider to be 1000 like on yours. However even with the slider on the min setting it is still at 1000. Slide half way up and it gets to 2000. I can't get it to go to zero on minimum slider setting.
If it happens on all models the the radio probably needs a calibration. You can get to it in the radio menu... Best of luck
Hello Lee, another great video but I have one little question.
Setting up my head-tracker on my Spektrum radio was easy thanks to your earlier videos.
But now, I have the Radiomaster TX16s and I can't seem to connect my Quanum head-tracker to the radio. through the jack.
I know I'm doing something wrong but I can't pin point it.
Any chance of you posting a video on how to set up this head-tracker with the TX16s?
Thank you in advance and keep up the good work.
Check out my videos on Opentx trainer. Google 'trainer Opentx painless360' and 'trainer Tx16s painless360' and you'll find them. Best of luck
@@Painless360Thank you, I'll check it out.
Preview just for you ;) ua-cam.com/video/_p8_1v9-3D8/v-deo.html
Might be dumb question, but is it possible to use headtracker for RC control (pitch, jaw, roll) except throttle (pushing back-forward)?
Yes, I'm working on it handheld version with the designer of the project..
@@Painless360 Glad to hear that ! Following
How do I add a switch like the old Hobbyking LED device that has same connector as a servo but on a quadcopter running inav? Thank you.
You'd like need to find an output on the controller that can output the PWM and use this process. Many quadcopter flight times controllers don't have spare pins for things like that. Best of luck
Hi Painless,
Great video, I was doing the same, it looks functional but I get a strange behavior,
maybe you can clear this out,
The Tx show smooth servo while sliding but in inav (outputs and receiver) it is jumping in fixed stairs like a 6 positions switch,
It causes the pan/tilt to move robotically instead of smooth.
What can be the problem?
ExpressLRS by any chance? See my video on ELRS and what that is..
I found it, thanks
I changed the resolution and it works fine,
Hey Danny, I made a video so that other may not fall into the same trap - ua-cam.com/video/xXftiFz9KKM/v-deo.html - out later this month..
Hello Lee ,
I wondered if you could help me please.
I know this might be a long shot , but im trying to find some update firmware for my Quanum 3 axis head tracker.
When i plug it into my computer , the green light appears but the GUI states that their is no firmware. Im at a loose end ??????....😥😥😥
I think they used the files from the DIY headtracker project.. Best of luck with it..
I have the f411 wse board and on my pan and tilt the pan servo only works on rc yaw. In angle mode if I pan it’s normal but if I use cruise mode the pan actually turns the plane. Any idea of what I’m doing wrong. It’s in a Dart XL so I don’t use rudder
I would not use the controls for the model to control the gimbal. Maybe duplicate the yaw onto a spare channel on the radio and use that instead?
I have the same Radio TX16s my left and right sliders are on channel 15 and 16 when I give the inputs i can see it only Radio but the same does not reflect in Inav receivers tab I see all other channel input except the 2 knobs on top and 2 sliders which are channel 13,14,15,16 respectively
Can you please help me not sure whats the issue here
Thanks in advance
What radio system? ExpressLRS? Something else?
I have a quad I'm building the flight controller doesn't have servo outputs but does have 4 extra servo outputs can they be re mapped to drive a pan and tilt camera servo setup
Not sure, Betaflight had some cool resource mapping stuff so I'd look to see if anyone with the same flight controller has figured it out.. Best of luck!
@@Painless360 I have flashed INAV to the controller
hey lee, im new and having a bit of a problem with my headtracker in inav. I got it working and i see the inputs moving in the receiver tab in inav when i move my goggles around. However, i am not getting any movement on my pan/tilt gimbal. please note that it seems like i can only use TR1 and TR2 (as opposed to tr5 and tr6 in the video) as my trainer channels for orqa fpv.one pilot built in headtracker. I noticed in inav i am not able to select RC channel 1 and 2 for headtracking, im assuming 1-4 are already being used up by elevons.. what should i do? should i just not use built in headtracker and use an external HT instead (hopefully preconfig tr5 and tr6 as pan/tilt respectively)? or is there any way for me to change the behavior of my built in headtracker to use 5 and 6 for pan/tilt instead of 1 and 2.....? theres not much literature out there going over this for the orqas... just ONE guide. also i am on radiomaster tx16s.
any help or guidance would be massively appreciated
Channels that the headtracker uses to send the signals to the radio (seen as TR1 etc.) can be added to any output channel on the radio. Usually assigning TR1 to CH7 and TR2 to CH8 would be useful. You should see them in the reciever tab moving..Then forward those to spare PWM outputs... Best of luck
@@Painless360 okay thank you! that being said, i am quite confused on what i need to set as my "inputs" in the inav mixer tab. the input tab on my radio has pan's source set to TR1 and tilt's source set to TR2. radio mixer tab has ch5 and 6 as pan/tilt - pan source TR1, tilt source TR2. and then currently i have servo 5's input set to "RC Channel 5" and servo 6 set to "RC Channel 6".... please highlight what im doing wrong lol i have no idea what im doing.
would you be able to expand on "forward those to spare pwm outputs" or direct me to a video of you covering it? sorry for noob questions... i just wanna fly :)
I have lots of videos that cover the setup of pan and tilt on the channel, check them out..
Hello. Why my signal from ts16s to inav (matek f411-wse) is discret. For example: 1000, 1275, 1425, 1500, 1575, ... How can I fix it?
Can you explain a little more? I don't understand...
@@Painless360 I think it is because I use expressLRS, where ch5 - 2pos, ch6-ch11 - 6pos, and ch12 - 16pos
Probably. If you mean that the channel doesn't move smoothly on anything but CH1-CH4 then that is an ELRS thing (at the moment)..
@@Painless360 exactly)
I would argue that handling a 3d printer is a nightmare especially with the cheap ones. You will loose all your time debugging the printer problems instead of building a new aircraft for example. 3d printing issues are countless and very hard to debug and it is a science by itself - over extrude, under extrude, layer separation, stringing, clogging, not sticking to the base plate, correct temp, correct filament flow, wet filament and so much more. You will spend many, many hours dealing with the stupid printer. Unless, I suppose, if you by an expensive one.
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