How to read rc car esc and servo?

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I am a noob at arduino and I had this project planned about a year ago. It’s hard to explain so here is the simulation I made:

This is on the remote side, on the car side there is a full fpv setup and it will read gyro/pot values to move the camera on top. I want to add blink indicators for when the car turns left or right and I want to read the data that’s going to the esc. When I was planning this project I did try to send a signal to the esc my self but it was a big mistake, during that time I realized that controlling a esc is the same thing as a servo motor. I am confused on one part however, can I just read the value That’s going to the esc only and not control it? I couldn’t find much on google, also I the reason I wanted to see what mapped value is going to the esc is because I wanted to add a back up screen to my oled. Edit: added 2nd simulation link

Thanks for reading!

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Post the program in CODE tags to see how we can help.

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You can read the PWM pulse signal that is going to a servo or ESC with the pulsein function.

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Yes.
You can use pulseIn() to read the ESC signal.
It will return a number between 1000 and 2000.
Set the timeout to 50000.

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