Control lights and tilt through pushbuttons in Cockpit

[EliotBR (Eliot)]

Hi @amarburg,

@amarburg

I’m mostly convinced this is consistent with the button never being “unpressed” – the ManualControl messages stop when you release the widget, but a ManualControl message with “no button pressed” is never sent.

Indeed. This approach would be more effective if you added a “stop” button that sends a MANUAL_CONTROL message with all the buttons un-pressed.

That said, MAVLink is not confined to joystick-related messages (in fact, we’re largely trying to move away from dependence on the autopilot interpreting button inputs), and there are almost certainly better ways of achieving what you’re after

@amarburg

control the lights and camera tilt … within Cockpit.

I’d recommend following these instructions for lights control setup.

If your camera tilt servo has its output assigned to the MountTilt function, camera tilt control should be possible in a similar way using MAV_CMD_DO_GIMBAL_MANAGER_PITCHYAW messages, though it may also be required to specify the mode (like we do in BlueOS).

EDIT: We have confirmed that it works to use MAV_CMD_DO_MOUNT_CONTROL, with param1 set to the angle you want (e.g. using a data-lake variable), and param7 set to RC_TARGETING (3)