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So, I ran into a bit of a problem with my drone project and was hoping you all might be able to point me in the right direction. The way it's set up, I have an APM handling my flight control and my RPI feeds it flight commands over MAVLink. The RPI is... hopefully... going to be communicating with my computer through a 3dr 915 mhz transceiver. Specifically, I'm using this transceiver. Now, I've found a couple guides on how to bind the transceivers and set them up for communication for a computer communicating with an APM and specifically using MAVLink. My problem is that I have no clue how to set this up for having computer to RPI communication. Further more, I'm not sure if I should actually use MAVLink for the computer to RPI link. I could use a different serial protocol to convey other commands and then have the RPI translate relevant flight commands into MAVLink for the APM. I've never really worked with serial transceivers before so I'm super clueless on how to set up stable communication for my RPI. What's more, there's a half dozen other projects I'd really like to do something similar for. I made a RPI based weather monitoring station a while back that I'd love to be able to send data burst transmissions.