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  • Doug Walmsley July 29, 2014 at 7:06am

    Hi GP,

    I just posted a similar request in the APM forum site under Mission Planner and Telemetry.  I feel there needs to be a easy way to allow monitoring (receive only) from a ground station as well as command and control (transceive) from another ground station such as a laptop/pc and/or tablet/smart phone device.  It should be noted that the two can swap off, but care must be taken to not allow both to control at the same time.  Maybe a Master and Slave configuration in Mission Planner and the telemetry units with the pilot deciding whether to hand off command and control to a second radio with the authority to take it back at anytime he/she chooses too. 

     

     

    • GP > Doug Walmsley July 30, 2014 at 9:35am

      I have been doing some reading, and I see a lot about "heartbeats" It is from my understanding that this heart beat message is constantly being sent back and forth. 

      So if we take control off one we might lose the heartbeat signal, which would be bad.

      I am not too sure.

    • F. C. Bearsch > Doug Walmsley July 29, 2014 at 9:10am
      Just a thought but if WiFi was used and the freq was changed to a 40 MHz channel width for better range, the IP address could be copter specific, MP or APM can be recompiled to run multiple instances and share the same resource library resulting in the ability to then show both UAVs info at the same time?
  • F. C. Bearsch July 23, 2014 at 7:38pm

    Well at first I miss read the post, as I use one base station radi with 2 UAVs but not at the same time... But I never tried to turn on two at the same time to see what it does...

    In know MP knows the differnt between the two as it saves differnt load files based on the connected UAV so in the morning I will turn them both on and see what happens... I do not think the 3dr radio and multiplex the signal that way but will see what it does wither way

    Have a feeling it will connect to one or the other based on the first connection, possibly you could pause the port and use two radios and switch that way... 

    Have you tried Universal Ground Station?

    • iskess > F. C. Bearsch July 23, 2014 at 10:49pm
      Im beta testing UGS. Its not ready, especially for fixed wings.
      • GP > iskess July 30, 2014 at 9:36am

        So you are testing it for quadrotors?

        Also how many radio modules and uavs do you have?

  • iskess July 22, 2014 at 11:40pm
    Please explain more about how this works. How does mission planner handle the two different downlinks? How can you utilize 2 different com ports in one instance of MP?
  • F. C. Bearsch July 22, 2014 at 9:18pm

    Yes, doing that now

    • GP > F. C. Bearsch July 23, 2014 at 9:35am

      Are you Doing 1 radio talking to 2 Uavs?

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