How to connect to 3DR solo using only pc ?

Posted by Rn on April 27, 2016 at 2:45am

Hi 

Finally bought the 3RD solo. 

I trying to write some software that will be able to get information (telemetry data) from the drone and sending flying commands to the drone.

I reading the Solo development guid and i still can't understand some issues .. 

1. Is it possible to do what i trying to develop ?

2. Is it possible to connect somehow to the 'Accessory Bay' with some other additional communications hardware device and control the solo drone thru this hardware device ?

3. There is some application over android that can control the solo drone - those application connect to the solo RC by using WiFi. 

Can i write also some application that can 'talk' with the RC and having control on the solo drone ? 

Is there some android libraries that i can use to have the connection with the RC ? 

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    • Théo May 21, 2016 at 4:12am

      Hi Ahmed,

      Thank you for the information! Did you succeed to actually use the serial ports on the accessory port? I'm trying to establish a serial connection to a raspberry pi but it's like the SER2Tx and SER2Rx pins were not connected to anything, I cannot get any heartbeat and the connection finally timesout...

      I'm not using the breakout board because I just need to use the two serial pins I mentioned and a ground pin, so I just soldered some wires on the JAE connector:

      3691300335?profile=original(The white and blue cables are not used)

      Am I doing a mistake? 

      So far I managed to connect the raspberry through the wifi and it's pretty promising so I eager to be able to connect it through serial :)

      Any advice would be really valuable!

      Thank you in advance

      Théo

    • Rn April 27, 2016 at 1:19pm

      Thanks, 

      But there are still somethings that i can't understand

      I have the solo drone .. and i can't see how to connect something to the accessory bay.

      How can i connect anything to the Accessory Bay ?

      Can i buy it from ebay and just connect it to the Accessory Bay ? 

      How i connect it to the power supply ? 

      I know that there is some telemery kit that i can buy on ebay - is there is some way to connect the Air Module to the drone ? 

    • Chris > Rn April 28, 2016 at 12:04am

      There is a little rubber-like rectangle cover plate that covers the accessories connector.  You'd then need a breakout board to connect to it.  It's limited in what it can provide (USB, Serial and CAN - only the first one is officially supported).  You can ask someone in the Solo Mod Club to get a breakout board or you can order a circuit board and populate it yourself (this is what I did).

      You can get the telemetry through the WiFi connection via UDP or you can connect a telemetry radio via the break out board (although it's not officially supported).

      To fix stuff to the accessories bay there are 4 M2 screw holes you can fix stuff too.

      Chris

    • Eylon Sorek April 27, 2016 at 12:49pm

      Thank you!

      -- Eylon 

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