Ok, here's something I'm trying to make work and I'll pick everyone's brains for help. So I'm
working with a quad. I'm interested in making the apm2.5's guided/follow me function follow the
gps coordinates from my iphone 5(currently with ios7). There's an app call gps2ip that will push
the phones coordinates to a computer via socket/tcp/etc In NMEA just how mission planner likes
it. I'm not a programmer nor the best with computers. But I figured out how to connect it via
Bluetooth and assign it a comport in windows 8.1's network configs. While I was in my
apartment I got really excited because I was trying to find a way to push the pgs to my laptop
wirelessly. To this point only having it plugged in using telnet/hwvsp3 worked. So getting the
Bluetooth to do it was awesome, tested it in around the apt and it was pretty accurate (within a
couple feet). But I went to test it away in an open parking lot and I couldn't get the Bluetooth to
push the coordinates again. I think it liked being connected to my home wifi, where as in the
parking lot it had to locate itself with cell service.
Has anyone tried to do something like this using an iphone? I'm sure androids are much easier
to accomplish this with. Any ideas?
Obvious limits of this are range of Bluetooth/wifi signal to laptop/ground station . If someone can
help me figure out how to push tcp to a server and load them into mission planner over the cell
network that would be awesome and eliminate the short range limits.
What do y'all think?
ps. just tried to get it to work again in my apartment and its not going...... grr it's be cool to get this to work
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simple solution, use andropilot or droidplanner. of couse, youll need to gat an decent phone with non_crippled connectivity. from a company, that does not abuse the ridiculous patent laws of usa