radio calibration

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gmcintire
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radio calibration

Post by gmcintire »

Just got my CF. Loving it!

But, I am using my Turnigy 9X as the joystick. This uses Smartpropoplus and PPjoy to turn a PPM or PCM signal into a Windows joystic controllerk.

It works great in PCM mode, but I want to use the radio receiver so I can unhook from the PC. The receiver only supports PPM. When I feed PPM in(either thru the trainer output of the transmitter or the Combined PPM output of the receiver) I cannot get a proper calibration.

The problem is, after calibration, when I move a stick(say roll) it ranges from -14 to +30 and centers at about 10. It seems the calibrator cannot adjust for natural range of the PPM signals.

I don't think the calibrator understands that the signal may be skewed. Is that correct? Is there any way to tell it the min, max and center of each channel?
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Re: radio calibration

Post by marcus »

The joystick calibration is fairly simple and relies on the underlying libraries to do the work. When selecting an axis it assumes that all the axis goes between 1 and -1, which should be the case when it comes out of PyGame. Does the joystick work well in other applications or the windows joystick test?
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