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Comment by Tommy Larsen on May 29, 2012 at 2:13pm

Skype is an alternative yes. I haven't tried the GoPro over 3g yet. I'm waiting for my Cotton Candy :) 

Comment by Murray Spoelstra on May 29, 2012 at 1:32pm

I tried compiling the v0.5 code onto an APM1 2560, but keep getting the error in Arducopter.cpp on line 1072 could not convert 'navigate()' to 'bool'. There are also a bunch of errors related to led's. Has anyone else experienced the same problems or have any suggestions, please?

Comment by Cameron on May 29, 2012 at 5:04am

Tommy,

Have you tested the VLC stream using a GoPro over 3g connection before? I understand you are downgrading the quality in an effort to decrease required bandwidth. How could I perform a test such as this myself on the ground? 

Comment by Murray Spoelstra on May 29, 2012 at 4:07am

I've flown a Wi-fi cam connected to a small 3G wifi router before. This could be viewed from anywhere, but the refresh rate and resolution was terrible. My next plan will be to use a smartphone that can be sacrificed with the Bambuser app installed. On ground it streams video quite OK to PC. If you have PC on board you could also consider just using Teamviewer or why not even Skype?

Comment by Tommy Larsen on May 27, 2012 at 4:17am

Hi Geir

I havent got mu Cotton Candy yet, but i got an email says during this month. So it should be close :)

Comment by Geir R on May 27, 2012 at 4:11am

I'm planning on a similar setup but with an USB cam instead of GoPro. How did you get the Cotton Candy? I tried pre-ordering but haven't heard anything so I'm waiting until end of June for a Raspberry Pi.

Comment by Tommy Larsen on May 26, 2012 at 3:15pm

Hi all

I am collecting hardware now for my IP based system. The plan is as follows:

I use a 3g WLAN-router Huawei E586 and connect the APM2 to this via a RS232 to WIFI (SerialIO device ) device for telemetry. At my GCS i use com0com/hub4com to get the serial data from IP to a virtual serial port. I will also have an onboard Linux computer. I will use my GoPro Hero2 camera and connect this to the linux via a USB video capture device, downgrade the video bitrate and resolution with VLC for Linux and stream this video to my GCS. This will make the video stream less bandwitdh and cost demanding, but still have the full resolution video inside my cam. The video window in APM planner is small enough to view the low resolution video from VLC. The videostream from Linux/VLC is input to APM planner via vCam.

With this system i will have both telemetry and video(no sound) via 3g and "unlimited" range. I will get back to you when everything is in house and connected :)

Comment by Ellis Akins on May 19, 2012 at 11:55pm

I have successfully flown my quadrotor over 3g internet via on-board computer. Soon to be 4g internet. Custom ground station thanks to Cameron Lattz. Full HD video stream and full Mavlink telemetry. More info in future posts soon.

Developer Comment by Andreas M. Antonopoulos on May 5, 2012 at 2:25pm

New cellular_modem library, v0.5 ready for testing. The library now supports both APM1 and APM2 hardware, on both ArduCopter and ArduPlane (can be trivially added to Boat or Rover too). 

Instructions and code here: http://diydrones.com/group/telemetry-over-cellular-ip/page/testing-...

Developer Comment by Andreas M. Antonopoulos on April 20, 2012 at 12:58pm

Detailed instructions for testing a GSM modem (eg dronecell) with the new Cellular Modem telemetry library have been posted here: http://bit.ly/HTAKQj

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