Using Taranis X7 instead of Joystick

[phillydoes]

Hello!

This may be a dumb question but is it required to use a Xbox One controller or Nvidia Shield controller to initialize the automode on the drone?

Is there a way to use only the Transmitter to bind a switch to start the trail running?

Thanks again!

[Alexey-Kamenev]

Not a dumb question at all!
The reason for having 2 controllers is that our drone DNN-based navigation is implemented using PX4 Offboard mode. So the standard transmitter is needed to perform pre- and post- autonomous operations, such as take-off and landing. Once the drone is airborne, offboard mode is turned on and the drone is controlled by commands coming from companion computer (Jetson), not the transmitter. This is where you need to use a second controller (e.g. Shield). To switch back to using transmitter, offboard mode needs to be turned off by a user or PX4 will disable it automatically if there are no waypoints sets within 500ms time interval.