Communicating with drones using different languages (i.e. mavlink for javascript)
Just curious if anyone has tried to use javascript to send mavlink commands to a drone... I am trying to make an HTML5/JS application that will send new waypoints to a drone. the plan is for it to be mobile and platform independant. does anyone know if this has been done? I have seen the C++ implementation and a python implementation.
I also saw what the MAVlink packet looks like, If it came down to it, I guess I could just write some code to create my own packet. However, I am not trying to reinvent the wheel if I don't need to.
Ideas and suggestions would be gladly accepted :)
Thanks,
Jason
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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Bill Bonney on -
For our JavaScrip HTML 5 you need a browser that supports Web Sockets http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-websockets-20091222/
Otherwise you need either an intermediary like a web server or plugin for you browser.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Gillikin on -
Bill, thanks for the websocket advice... I was wondering, once I open the socket, how would I send a message like WAYPOINT_SET_CURRENT. and how do I specify to use the MAVLink protocol. Sorry for all the questions, just starting out with this project.
Jason
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Crevensten on
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FYI, I've issued a pull request to the main mavlink repository that contains code to generate Javascript implementations of the MAVLink protocol. The work is preliminary and not flight-tested, but it may get you going in the right direction.
Here's the pull request:
https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink/pull/107
And here's our forked repo; the relevant code is in the 'javascript' branch:
https://github.com/acuasi/mavlink
Feedback/questions welcome!
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