Hi all, hoping someone can help with some issues I’m having.
I recently installed the latest QGC on my herelink V1.0 to be able to use newer releases of Arducopter as the standard QGC is missing support for multiple mounts, so loses camera controls.
I’m using a Sont RX0ii on the canrea front.
In the new version I’m seeing my video feed dropping out 70% of the time when I use the camera. The sequence of events is as below.
- Start up Herelink
- Start up drone and allow to boot and connect
- Start up QGC - 4.4.3
- Start up camera
- At this point I can see my screen on the camera start to flicker as if the video is trying to connect, but it never does, instead just contimues to flicker on and off. The video never streams in QGC
If I slighly modify the sequence I can get a video streaming
- Start up Herelink
- Start up drone and allow to boot and connect
- Start up QGC - 4.0.8
- Start up camera
- Wait for video to stream - usually only takes a few seconds
- Close down QGC 4.0.8
- Start up QGC - 4.4.3
- Video streams OK in 4.4.3
After this I can use the camera to trigger photos with no problems, but if I start recording video probably 70% of the time the video drops first time. The other 30% of the time it comes back OK, but then either when I stop recording, or start a subsequent recording the video drops.
When using the camera manually I can see the screen does go black for a moment when recording is triggered, and again when it’s stopped. It appears this is what is causing the issues, but I don’t know why this would be an issue in 4.4.3 and not in 4.0.8.
It seems like in the video stream re-connection there is a retry or max time it will try to connect which has changed between the two versions, and in the shorter time limit is too short for my camera, but I don’t know the code so this is bit of guess?
If anyone can point me something to try, or if more info is needed then please let me know, and I will give it a try.
Thanks for any help