Trying time to time to get the combo SiteScan Mount + Sony R10C working...
Not much progress, but here is what I found out :
- with a 3DR Solo running the last official 3DR ardupilot, the camera is powered on (the led is on) and the gimbal is synchronised to the vehicle's moves (it's properly balanced when one handle it). But no way to remotely control the tilt of the gimbal (or to trigger the camera; for the record, back in time the original SiteScan bird never let the user to manually trigger the camera, the shots were always programmatically controlled during the mission). Couldn't managed to go further, the RC is stuck in the preflight message, and, anyway, and as far as I can remember, the genuine 3DR solo app don't allow to trigger a SiteScan equiped Solo (but it did fly it)... Only the SiteScan app did (or does) the full job.
- with a 3DR Solo updated to Open Solo 4, Solex, QGC, etc : the gimbal is powered on but stays stucked in the middle range of the 2 servos, whatever the vehicle tilt/roll are. The camera doesn't seem to be powered on...
Conclusion : most of the code that would allows us to control the gimbal/camera are probably already open sourced in the 3DR official repo... It's written in C++ and could probably be adapted to Python's refurbishing in Open Solo.
I am not that experienced in coding, but maybe someone more confident on that could have a look and find some hints to adapt what was already converted to python... to be continued?