Hi,
As far as I can know, to make control, telemetry, and video streaming work well, you have to set up three different ways of communication between drone and remote controller.
According to what described here [1], however, it looks like only a way of communication (custom wifi) is used all for control, telemetry and video streaming? If wrong, please correct me.
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Your assumption is not correct, you don't need three different 'physical' layers to communicate between the drone and remote. You an transport those channels all on the WiFi physical layer. in this case it all runs on the same Network Layer.
http://www.cisco1900router.com/what-is-ios-model-the-overall-explan...
@Bill according to your description, this means actually between solo and remote controller there is only a way of communication, custom wifi. then, i was digging myself into this part via google. and then i found out some interesting articles relating to explanation of solo communication [2] [3].
Up to this point, i have finally come to conclusion that there is only a way of communication between solo and remote controller, meaning control, telemetry, and video streaming have the same physical layer (i.e. wifi) but with different transport protocols. let's say, mavlink for telemetry, h.264 for video streaming. but, what for control?
But, another question is coming up: why don't make smartphone or table or pc directly connect to drone via wifi, where drone acts as a wireless router while other devices connected serve as clients to operate on drone so that there is no need for remote controller. any opinions about this?
[2] https://3drobotics.com/solo-gopro-drone-specs/
[3] http://markmaunder.com/2015/06/29/3dr-solo-review-and-some-tech-data/
Has anyone got this working? I'd love to connect directly to the Solo via Wifi without the controller!