After experiencing joystick steering in a friends Fendt tractor, I want to explore how to add this to my AgOpenGPS setup in my New Holland T4.
Im currently running a hydraulic steering valve so I would just need to command the valve position. If I could do this through AgOpenGPS, that would be ideal.
Can anyone shed any light on if I can interface to the steering system through software?
Like this?
Yes! Exactly like that!
I was messing around with something like this to use it for a reversed steering station, but for something like that you would need to have the joystick following the wheels like Fendt has done, so when the joystick is in “neutral” the wheels are straight. It will also make driving the tractor a lot easier. I have absolutely zero real experience with coding so I got black box ai (ai made for coding) to write something up, with an Arduino, a cytron, a switch and a button, for reversed steering or normal steering, a calibration mode for max steering degree. But haven’t had the time to do more than a basic bench test with a motor but I think it could have potential
This is exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve purchased a joystick to start playing with but haven’t had time to do anything yet.
I was hoping to leverage AoG itself but the examples I was linked to show the joystick connecting to the Arduino one-way or another.
I havnt looked at the code much yet, but my goal is an Ethernet joystick adapter to get steering data into the system and some firmware modifications on the Arduino to use the data.
I will post my progress when I make some.
So your thinking of making it work through aog? Then you would have to re flash the teensy or Arduino every time you want to use autosteer, I was more going towards having a separate box that plugs in to the wiring harness for the valve and wheel angle sensor