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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Morli on February 28, 2010 at 6:26pm

Hi Andrew ,
If GCS code is shared/available then probably some one here will make it work with ardupilot but it is upto Millswoodeng to share or not to share.... , anyway I am also very much interested in their FS device but haven't figured out a way to use it effectively in my setup so far

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Dunlop on March 1, 2010 at 1:10am

A UDB version is being generated, which will use the Ardupilot telemetry protocol, so theoretically it should work with an Ardupilot.
Timing "soonish", definitely well before the Australian UAV Outback Challenge.
And yes, absolutely, we will share.

Andrew.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Morli on March 1, 2010 at 7:21am

Andrew , that is good work. thanks

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on March 1, 2010 at 2:10am

Its a top tool and comes with a complete recommendation from me myself and I, will be a great addition to UDB and Ardu before anybody says I am, I don't make any money from Andrew.

He has just created a great product.

I might take a couple if beers from him mind, next time I'm in Oz

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Dunlop on April 16, 2010 at 3:19am

A RoboRealm-based Ardupilot-compatible GCS has been liberated here:

Ardupilot / UDB GCS

There's also a short user guide. As I do not actually own an Ardupilot or a UDB (shame on me), there may well be bugs. Happy to fix; please just let me know.

Cheers,
Andrew

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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on April 16, 2010 at 5:45am

Awesome! I'm on the road right now and can't test it on hardware but will give it a shot on over the weekend and will post on it properly then.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Seddon on May 17, 2010 at 3:47am

I wonder if others have had any problem using this?

I am using Ardupilot 2.6 and a Dell Win 7 laptop.

Here are my problems when on the ground:
1. The heading indicator (artifical horizon) does not respond even to my hand in fornt of the thermopiles.
2. I don't seem to be getting any data sent to Google Earth - there are $GPGGA sentences being generated and I setup the software serial ports and have set GE to realtime GPS.
3. The vario indicator is certainly doing something but the airpseed indicator is not - is that because I need the asi selected in the AP software?

Is it possible to save the incoming AP data stream to a file?

Peter

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Dunlop on May 19, 2010 at 1:33am

Hi Peter,

Have you had any luck getting the GCS to work?
If you are able to save the incoming data to a file it would be instructive to take a look at it.

Cheers,
Andrew

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Permalink Reply by Peter Seddon on May 28, 2010 at 8:55am

Sorry for the very long delay.

Here is a file of some data that has come out of my AP.

regards Peter

Attachments:

• data from ap 250510 2.LOG, 29 KB

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Dunlop on May 28, 2010 at 9:19pm

Ah, I see. Thanks Peter.

Ardupilot telemetry has been significantly enhanced since I wrote the GCS. It doesn't look to difficult to include the new stuff; I'll get onto it once a few other jobs are squared away.

Cheers,
Andrew

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Permalink Reply by Peter Seddon on May 29, 2010 at 3:34am

Andrew,

I have been struggling to get automatik's GCS to work as well due to telemetry changes in the code. He has recommended I try the latest version of the 2.6 code which maybe closer to the version you used as well. I am about to do so I will also try it on your GCS as well and let you know what happens.

Peter

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Permalink Reply by Peter Seddon on May 29, 2010 at 1:11pm

Andrew,

With the latest 2.6 APilot code the Millswood GCS seems to work correctly - I haven't done a very detailed check but it did cure one of my major problems and the AI now works.

regards Peter

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