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Kakute F7
FPV Camera Control is a feature of Betaflight that allows you to access your FPV camera’s on-screen
menu using your transmitter sticks. With this feature, you can easily adjust brightness, contrast, and
other camera settings in response to changing lighting conditions.
There are two forms of Camera Control: analog and digital. Analog camera control is for cameras that
use an analog-style joystick input. Digital camera control is currently reserved for some Runcam
cameras. Look at the plug on the back of your camera. If you see a pin labeled “OSD” then your camera
uses analog control. If you have a Runcam camera with pins labeled “RX” and “TX”, then your camera
uses digital control.
To use camera control with the Kakute F7 AIO, you will use resource reassignment to convert an unused
motor output to the camera control function. To reassign Motor 5 pad to the camera control function,
go to the CLI tab and enter these commands:
resource MOTOR 5 none
resource CAMERA_CONTROL C09
set camera_control_key_delay = 125
save
If your camera uses analog control, solder the “OSD” wire on
the camera plug to the M5 pad on the Kakute F7.
If your camera uses digital control, solder the camera TX wire
to pad R3 on the Kakute F7. Solder the camera RX wire to pad
T3 on the Kakute F7.
The Kakute F7 has a Camera Control output that fully
implements the analog camera control feature, however the
feature does not work 100% reliably with every camera on
the market. If you hook up the wire and the feature doesn’t
work, you may need to adjust some command line
parameters, or the feature simply may not work with your
camera.
The Kakute F7 already has a camera control resistor installed on M5. You do not need to install a resistor
to use this function.
