now that almost everything is good on apm 2.5 i think it will be perfect to have an option to use android phone screen to have mission planner for example
do you know if there will be this kind of option?
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Ubuntu looks like the best bet as far asactually running the mission planner on your phone, on a slight tangent, I wonder if it would be possible to have a wireless router on a helicopter set up as an access point to then stream video back to the groundstation. along with whatever else you want?? Pi maybe?
but Nexus 10 doesn't support USB OTG, so you have to use it with laptop
You can also try some clonesc of copter-gcs project. http://code.google.com/p/copter-gcs/source/clones
xcl0100-copter-gcs look like work ok via bluetooth.
Currently I'm going to buy some tab (maybe Nexus 7) with USB host support and try to use OTG cable for 3DR radio clone.
I hope it will work. If not anyway I can use BT bridge.
Have a look at www.splashtop.com. While it doesn't run the MP natively, it shows and allows you to interact with a PC desktop via your Android phone.
This is an actual screenshot of the Mission Planner on my Galaxy SII, resolution looks bad because ning resizes the image to 721px from 800px:
great!!!!
There is a working android gcs available here:
http://autoquad.org/wiki/wiki/getting-started/autoquad-software-set...
This is based on the copter-gcs linked by others. Last updated in November 2012.
You will need a Bluetooth module like this:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10269
Connected either to your telemetry radio or directly to your telemetry port on the apm.
I've not used this yet myself but plan to. I've installed the gcs and it appears to work on my Asus tf101 with android 4.
search around in forum. you will find that there's one open source project, Copter-GCS , and one ~year old thread about a promising project, that turned out to be vaporware, partially delayed/destroyed by the authors obsession of providing an apple version, while apple sabotaged the interface as good as only they can. Anyway - Look at Copter-GCS, and don't hope for the other project to be completed anytime soon.