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Robert Mapes replied to Charles Linquist's discussion Joystick support
"Charles,  I need to implement your automatic failover between 4G and 915Mhz. Is your small pcb board you previously described available for this?"
Jun 21, 2017
Robert Mapes replied to Charles Linquist's discussion Telemetry and HD video over 4G
"Charles,
Do you have more detail on this
 little (1" X 1") board which acts as a level shifter / failover / data selector.  That board connects to 6 GPIO and power pins on a Raspberry pi, and 4 pins of a RFD 900 radio (also works with 3DR radio)…"
Jun 19, 2017
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"The Brilliance lies within Patrick's innovation. It is a work of art :)"
Feb 9, 2017
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"After you enter it you need to press enter to save the string"
Feb 9, 2017
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"i meant to say I use -A and -C"
Feb 9, 2017
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"That is how I do it,  this command places both the data and the video over the same link but over different ports. Also, if there is video already coming over in a separate window (the D3D video window), you have to close it  first so that the video…"
Feb 9, 2017
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"It looks like a video window. if it is the D3D video window that opens first, you must then close it before running the QT HUD app. The QT HUD app video window does not work, doesn't  overlay  inside the HUD until you do this. Only one video can…"
Dec 28, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"What is the hidden window behind your command line window"
Dec 28, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"I recall had a similar error when I had both the early plug-i version and the standalone version on my laptop, and they were competing. So, I removed both versions and re-installed the latest standalone. I would try that."
Dec 28, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"See the earlier similar Comment by Steve on April 11, 2015 at 11:10am regarding this error message"
Dec 27, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"I recommend that rather than using the plugin version, that you instead  install and use Patrick's standalone version as he recommends and supports.  It is an excellent GStreamer HUD option."
Dec 15, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"Per the gstreamer wiki's, the correct  string to use for H264 streaming (to input and run on the client GCS pc) is to copy and insert the verbose output that is displayed at the server side (the entire caps string in the verbose output obtained from…"
Dec 14, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"One other tip (from the gstreamer wiki's) I find useful. When you run raspi-vid (gstreamer) on the Pi, the command window verbose display output includes the string of the caps attributes like this example:
caps="application/x-rtp\,\…"
Dec 2, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"Great! The ports are
14551 is used by the HUD telemetry
14550 is used by Mission Planner telemetry
9000 (or 5000 in my case) is used by the HUD for Gstreamer video "
Dec 2, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"My guess is that Mission planner and HUD are both trying to use 14550 so one of them has to fail. If you hit the HUD wireless button it places the HUD on 14551. Try that and then open Mission Planner and connect. It may lake a little more time to…"
Dec 1, 2016
Robert Mapes commented on Patrick Duffy's blog post How to setup a Mission Planner HD-Video HUD using GStreamer and Mission Planner plugins
"you click on the HUD wireless icon button to connect to Mavlink for telemetry, correct?

and Mission Planner is using 14550 in the MP upper right hand connect menu? I can't tell in your picture with MP above (it is cut off)"
Dec 1, 2016
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