Hello everyone,
I have a small problem. I have purchased a Bluetooth adapter and have inserted it into my Pixhawk TELEM1 port following this easy tutorial:
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-mission-planner-bluetooth-connectivity/
I now need to read GPS coordinates transmitted from an Android application I developed that are received by this Bluetooth module. Inside the App these cords can be typed, selected by tapping a Google Map Fragment in the App or retrieved from a DB on my website. My current efforts to read from the TELEM port have used Mission Planner python scripts.
It is extremely easy to set a waypoint with a simple Python Mission Planner python script:
MissionPlanner.Utilities.Locationwp.lat.SetValue(item,lat)
MissionPlanner.Utilities.Locationwp.lng.SetValue(item,lng)
MissionPlanner.Utilities.Locationwp.alt.SetValue(item,alt)
I would love to be able to fill the lat,lng and alt variables with data retrieved from the Android App I have developed. Unfortunately, I do not know how to access the TELEM 1 pin to read from. The closest I have found to this is:
import serial
ser = serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyUSB0', baudrate=57600, parity=serial.PARITY_NONE, stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE, bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS, timeout=0)
print("connected to: " + ser.portstr)
while True:
print ser.readline()
I believe ttyUSB0 is a USB port, and I believe it is the USB on the Pixhawk. I have tried modifying the USB0 and other parameters to a variety of tags hoping to discover the TELEM1 pin by chance, but no luck yet. (I found this script from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24227833/reading-data-from-ardupilots-telemetry-port-using-cable)
So in short, does anyone know how to read data from bluetooth with python scripts with a pixhawk and ardupilot? Or at least a way to read data coming in through the TELEM port? Or do you know of any board/setup that will allow me to read bluetooth data from my App to set waypoints? I would be eternally grateful.
I will release all the code and even allow people to use my servers to store/transmit their own cords for free as soon as I get this, which will be way cool for the community I think.
Also, I did make a similar post in the ardupilot forums but have received no help:
http://ardupilot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=15124
Thanks,
D Craig
(Mods I did not know what category to put this in, so I left it blank. Feel free to put it wherever and sorry)
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