"Andrey,

I have been working on my application and I am having problems still getting GPS from my mobile device.  My question is for the 3DR solo what mobile app do you recommend to get the Solo drone to follow-me preferably on an iPhone or iPad?

I…"

"Hey Andre, to be more exact I am thinking about building a GCS companion or adding on to a GCS so I can plot on a map both where the drone is and where the controller is.

So my vision would be to have an external laptop and to use it to connect to…"

"Hi Andre,

Thanks for your reply.  Do you know how I can get GPS from the controller/mobile device or know of any resources online that might have information about this?

I am trying to build an app to show the GPS of the mobile device/controller.…"

"Hey Cala,

The main reason why is because I already successfully modified the solo with custom software and I would like to find a similar drone to do the same thing to prove that the software is cross-platform however if the drone is too different…"

"Francisco,
One last question for now.  Would you think the ardupilot/ArduCopter might have in it what I am looking for?  That is where I have recently been looking.  I have been poking around on the controller and drone also...I will likely try to…"

"Francisco,

Thanks for your replies, with your help on a different post I was able to get my python mavlink parser working.
Regarding this post, lets say I have my solo connected to my controller and I was flying it fine then lets say I wanted to…"

"Hey Mike,
It has been a while since this thread was active.  I am just curious if you or anyone else made progress on this project?"

"Hey Francisco,
I am trying to fallow your advice.  My short-term goal is to just decode mavlink messages from my controller or Drone across a UDP link using your idea and print them to standard output.

What I have done so far is I ran the python…"

"My experience learning mavlink and drone stuff in general is everything is kind of all over the place.  I was hoping there would be a one stop shop for learning this stuff quickly.  I will take a look at mavproxy.  Thanks for the input Andre and…"

"The message set you sent me seems a little odd.  For one thing, the solo I am using does not even have a go pro.  Wouldn't I be better off using this link https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink/blob/master/message_definitions/..."