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2 Walkera WK-0701 transmitter
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5 Walkera WK-0701 transmitter is supplied with a ready to fly Walkera
6 helicopters such as HM36, HM37, HM60. The walkera0701 module enables to use
7 this transmitter as joystick
9 Devel homepage and download:
10 http://zub.fei.tuke.sk/walkera-wk0701/
13 cg-clone http://zub.fei.tuke.sk/GIT/walkera0701-joystick
19 At back side of transmitter S-video connector can be found. Modulation
20 pulses from processor to HF part can be found at pin 2 of this connector,
21 pin 3 is GND. Between pin 3 and CPU 5k6 resistor can be found. To get
22 modulation pulses to PC, signal pulses must be amplified.
24 Cable: (walkera TX to parport)
26 Walkera WK-0701 TX S-VIDEO connector::
29 __ __ S-video: canon25
30 / |_| \ pin 2 (signal) NPN parport
31 / O 4 3 O \ pin 3 (GND) LED ________________ 10 ACK
33 \ ___ / 2 ________________________|\|_____|/
35 ------- 3 __________________________________|________________ 25 GND
38 I use green LED and BC109 NPN transistor.
43 Build kernel with walkera0701 module. Module walkera0701 need exclusive
44 access to parport, modules like lp must be unloaded before loading
45 walkera0701 module, check dmesg for error messages. Connect TX to PC by
46 cable and run jstest /dev/input/js0 to see values from TX. If no value can
47 be changed by TX "joystick", check output from /proc/interrupts. Value for
48 (usually irq7) parport must increase if TX is on.
55 Driver use interrupt from parport ACK input bit to measure pulse length
59 Based on walkera WK-0701 PCM Format description by Shaul Eizikovich.
60 (downloaded from http://www.smartpropoplus.com/Docs/Walkera_Wk-0701_PCM.pdf)
78 SYNC , BIN1, OCT1, BIN2, OCT2 ... BIN24, OCT24, BIN25, next frame SYNC ..
85 Binary values: Analog octal values:
87 288 uS Binary 0 318 uS 000
88 438 uS Binary 1 398 uS 001
92 1306 uS SYNC 718 uS 101
96 24 bin+oct values + 1 bin value = 24*4+1 bits = 97 bits
98 (Warning, pulses on ACK are inverted by transistor, irq is raised up on sync
99 to bin change or octal value to bin change).
101 Binary data representations
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104 One binary and octal value can be grouped to nibble. 24 nibbles + one binary
105 values can be sampled between sync pulses.
107 Values for first four channels (analog joystick values) can be found in
108 first 10 nibbles. Analog value is represented by one sign bit and 9 bit
109 absolute binary value. (10 bits per channel). Next nibble is checksum for
112 Next nibbles 12 .. 21 represents four channels (not all channels can be
113 directly controlled from TX). Binary representations are the same as in first
114 four channels. In nibbles 22 and 23 is a special magic number. Nibble 24 is
115 checksum for nibbles 12..23.
117 After last octal value for nibble 24 and next sync pulse one additional
118 binary value can be sampled. This bit and magic number is not used in
119 software driver. Some details about this magic numbers can be found in
120 Walkera_Wk-0701_PCM.pdf.
125 Summary of octal values in nibbles must be same as octal value in checksum
126 nibble (only first 3 bits are used). Binary value for checksum nibble is
127 calculated by sum of binary values in checked nibbles + sum of octal values
128 in checked nibbles divided by 8. Only bit 0 of this sum is used.