Native driver for the SIYI optical-pod line (A2 mini, A8 mini, ZR10, ZR30, ZT6, ZT30) with per-model capability negotiation: gimbal, zoom, focus, photo/record, thermal palette and spot temperature, laser rangefinder with subject geolocation, and on-pod AI tracking.
Speaks the SIYI Gimbal Camera External SDK over UDP, TCP, or a TTL serial port directly, so the agent drives the features a stock autopilot mount cannot: thermal palettes and temperature, the laser rangefinder, subject geolocation, and AI tracking. On start the plugin queries firmware and the hardware id, resolves the exact model's capability profile, and exposes only the controls that model supports. The pod's own tracker box is republished onto the shared detection bus so cockpit click-to-track and follow behaviours work with no on-board accelerator. The laser range plus the gimbal angles and the flight controller pose resolve a subject latitude and longitude that drops a marker on the map. Gimbal attitude and the laser range are mirrored up to the flight controller as standard MAVLink so the built-in gimbal panel lights up too.
Flight behaviors this extension adds to the cockpit Skill Bar, each bindable to a hotkey or gamepad button.
The capabilities this extension requests. You approve them at install time; the sandbox denies anything not listed here.
Forecast footprint on the companion computer. The supervisor enforces the hard limits.
Live channels this extension publishes to Mission Control.
Report the pod model, capabilities, attitude, zoom, palette, range, and tracker state.
Set the absolute optical/hybrid zoom (zoom models). Clamped to the model's maximum.
Set the thermal colour palette by code (thermal models).
Take a still on the pod.
Start or stop recording on the pod.
Lock the pod's tracker onto a box (pod-frame pixels), or the frame centre when no box is given. Moves the gimbal.
Fire the laser rangefinder and report the slant range in metres (laser models). Fires the laser.
Fire the rangefinder and resolve the pointed subject's latitude and longitude from the gimbal angles and vehicle pose (laser models). Fires the laser.
Open Mission Control, then use the Extensions tab on a compatible node to browse the registry and install this extension. Mission Control installs the signed archive on the node you select; it activates after the signature is confirmed and the requested capabilities are approved.
Full skill set with glyphs (gimbal aim, zoom, thermal palette, laser range, photo, record, and subject tracking), each gated to the connected model's real capabilities so unsupported controls render disabled. Photo and record fire their real one-shot paths, and the pod's camera streams bind through the shared multi-stream video roster. Multiple simultaneous streams (zoom EO, wide EO, IR) with picture-in-picture.
Initial release.