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Raspberry Pi and Mission Planner?

Posted by Marty Knoll on November 3, 2012 at 7:53pm

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone has tried doing anything with the Raspberry Pi boards and Mission Planner? http://www.raspberrypi.org

If it is possible to get the software working on the board with a usb video capture stick or something you would be able to have full telemetry and video in a footprint that could be stuck to the back of your radio. The power requirement os also quite low, and would be a lot more convenient than balancing a laptop somewhere.

I will have a more in depth look into it next week :) Just thought I'd see if anyone had looked into this setup at all.http://www.raspberrypi.org

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Rick July 10, 2014 at 8:46am

Yep, I just compiled it on my Pi using the Linux instructions. After 5 hours, I left it and went to bed, it was done compiling in the morning. 8-) Starts up fine, no errors.

As for the display, I use an hdmi-vga dongle.

Rick
benbojangles July 10, 2014 at 1:52am

As far as I'm aware (I might be wrong) the raspberryPi hasn't got composite-in, only composite out. Composite in would be good for integrating fpv video in Mission Planner.

Also, there is a more powerful board called the hummingboard (http://gizmodo.com/raspberry-pi-has-a-tiny-45-pc-competitor-1599677115) This might run Mission Planner & FPV video together.
- benbojangles > benbojangles July 10, 2014 at 2:36am
  
  Actually, there's an idea. Combine a Hummingboard (http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/), with a RC305 video receiver, a 7" touchscreen monitor....Load DroidPlanner onto it...Mount it to your Taranis...And you have both recorded FPV & touchscreen GCS. And A/B switch to change between the 2 screens. Nice idea huh? Who's good at getting me Kickstarter funded? :) :) :)
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Bill Piedra July 9, 2014 at 7:22am

I've been experimenting with a 4G LTE Dongle and Raspberry Pi as a telemetry system for pixhawk. I've also thought of using it for video, but haven't had the time for those experiments yet.
Copter Richie July 9, 2014 at 6:59am

I personally have not done it but it is detailed how to here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2169852
Corrado Viettone January 14, 2014 at 5:59am

What about running droid planner or andropilot on one of the more recent and powerful boards like beaglebone/cubieboard/pcduino/olinuxino/odroid, that are all capable of running linux/android and all come with 1ghz or more processor and 2gb of RAM?

I think this would be a solution to run a full featured GCS in a very small package.

I'm probably going to try the olinuxino A20 board with its 10'' display, will let you know...
Jota Parro November 27, 2013 at 3:46am

I'm interested in this proyect, but I think we need do something similar to apm with 3 or 4 machines, using wine or similar, it's possible??
Copter Richie November 12, 2013 at 3:53pm

Any new development with this project?

thank you.
Alexey Kozin February 25, 2013 at 9:22am

sudo apt-get install phonon libqt4-dev \
libphonon-dev libphonon4 phonon-backend-gstreamer \
qtcreator libsdl1.2-dev libflite1 flite1-dev \
build-essential libopenscenegraph-dev openscenegraph\
flite flite-devel

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package openscenegraphflite
E: Unable to locate package flite-devel
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi#
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Bill Bonney February 24, 2013 at 5:34am

I would try running this project on the Pi https://github.com/wiseman/mavelous

wiseman/mavelous

multi-platform ground station for drones that speak the MAVLink protocol - wiseman/mavelous