Digital camera control using radio channel.

With this module you can take pictures using a radio channel. When you put the channel to max the picture are taken. If the channel goes high for more than 0.75s a picture is taken every 1sec. Only usable for fixedwing firmware.

Example for airframe file

Add to your firmware section: This example contains all possible configuration options, not all of them are mandatory!

 <module name="digital_cam|digital_cam_servo|digital_cam_uart|digital_cam_i2c|digital_cam_video"/>
 <module name="digital_cam_shoot_rc">
   <define name="DC_RADIO_SHOOT" value="RADIO_xxx" />
 </module>

Module configuration options

Define Options

name: DC_RADIO_SHOOT value: RADIO_xxx
Description: specifies the channel to be used to trigger the camera by radio transmiter

Dependencies

digital_cam module|digital_cam_servo|digital_cam_uart|digital_cam_i2c|digital_cam_video

Module functions

Periodic Functions

These functions are called periodically at the specified frequency from the module periodic loop.

dc_shoot_rc_periodic()
- Frequency in Hz: 4
- Autorun: TRUE
  Periodic function automatically starts after init.

Files

Header Files

The following headers are automatically included in modules.h

dc_shoot_rc.h

Source Files

modules/digital_cam/dc_shoot_rc.c

Raw digital_cam_shoot_rc.xml file:

<!DOCTYPE module SYSTEM "./module.dtd">
<module name="digital_cam_shoot_rc"  dir="digital_cam">
  <doc>
    <description>
      Digital camera control using radio channel.
      With this module you can take pictures using a radio channel.
      When you put the channel to max the picture are taken.
      If the channel goes high for more than 0.75s a picture is taken every 1sec.
      Only usable for fixedwing firmware.
    </description>
    <define name="DC_RADIO_SHOOT" value="RADIO_xxx" description="specifies the channel to be used to trigger the camera by radio transmiter"/>
  </doc>
  <depends>digital_cam|digital_cam_servo|digital_cam_uart|digital_cam_i2c|digital_cam_video</depends>
  <header>
    <file name="dc_shoot_rc.h"/>
  </header>
  <periodic fun="dc_shoot_rc_periodic()" freq="4" autorun="TRUE"/>
  <makefile>
    <define name="DIGITAL_CAM_SHOOT_RC"/>
    <file name="dc_shoot_rc.c"/>
  </makefile>
</module>