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UAV programmer, Innovator and researcher. I live in the Netherlands and presently working at Thales Defense Systems. Please visit my LinkedIn for more information about me.


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Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"@Seppo,
Where can I find the original firmware (not binary) for RFD868x and RFD900x versions? 
Product link: http://store.rfdesign.com.au/rfd-868x-modem/

In the above link, this statement sounds misleading: "The software solution is an open source…"
Sep 8, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Stefan Gofferje's discussion Encryption in 3DR radios?
"Interesting discussion! Makes me wonder 4 years post the last comment, what has been the conclusion in terms of encryption on low-cost radios? Do we already have it, or yet pondering on a genius idea to make it happen, coz even Google is unable to…"
Aug 31, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Konrad Harbort's discussion Xbee as telemetry module for pixhawk does not work
"Any luck buddy? Were you able to solve the issue you had with your XBee? I would have expected it be to pretty simple but does not seem so. I had connected CTS/RTS and at best I received a number of packet loss and unable to download the mission…"
Aug 31, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"@Seppo, the main question I have before purchasing this device is whether it is "spoof proof", i.e. can I prevent hijack of a drone with your device and does it provide a safety AES-128 encryption possibility? I am more interested in secure data…"
Aug 31, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Seppo's discussion RFD900, RFD900+ - New long range radio modem
"Any updates on  AES128 bit encryption for the RFD900+? This is the need of the hour today and an added value to securing links between GCS and autopilot.

Anyone any idea on it?"
Aug 31, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Stephen Roach's discussion 3DR radios will not connect for initial setup *** SOLVED ***
"Follow the steps below for Linux/Ubuntu to configure Telemetry radio settings (almost all today use SIK firmware):

1) Install Putty (sudo apt-get install putty)
2) Insert the telemetry device to PC over USB
3) Open Putty and configure (look under…"
Aug 30, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Stewart A Aucoin's discussion Telemetry Not communicating with APM
"Did someone resolve this? Any inputs are appreciated as I am facing the same problem but with Pixhawk and XBee Pro S1 not communication. The two Xbee modules communicate directly with each other when connected via PC."
Jul 17, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Konrad Harbort's discussion Xbee as telemetry module for pixhawk does not work
"Hi @Konrad Harbort or others,
Have you able to solve the problem, if so how? Would like to know? I face the same problem between my Pixhawk and QGroundControl (GCS) - same story.

Thanks,
Shyam"
Jul 17, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"Sorry dude! I meant to say "mavgenerate.py", you did the right thing. I use Linux so I have no problems, possibly there might be some package missing for Windows. Also, when you run it the GUI mavgenerate, it should be quite straightforward like…"
Feb 27, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"Yes Randy. Thanks for the motivation. Working on it. Hope it would be coming soon! ;)
Randy Grinter said:
Shyam,
Thank you so much for writing this tutorial!  
Will there be a Part II?
Thanks again.
Best Regards,
Randy"
Feb 26, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"Thanks. You can simply run PyMavlink.py GUI in the ../mavlink/message_definitions/v1.0 folder to generate the destination folder + JavaScript (select v.2.0 from the dropdown) to generate Javascript (.js) file.
The generated file would be:…"
Feb 26, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"Glad you enjoyed it. Have you visited the website dev.ardupilot.com, for developers? I dont have a link to a step by step guide atm. What i would suggest is to have your code setup under a framework such as Eclipse/Visual studio and use a Console…"
Jan 8, 2017
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"@Ronello, I am glad that the article I wrote over 3 years ago is still being found useful.

I received your message. There are two software stacks commonly in use today: a) Ardupilot (APM) software stack and b) PX4 software stack
a) was initially…"
Dec 29, 2016
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"That's a cool project. Well, this is what I think:
Some questions:1) When you are doing swarming, are communicating directly between the two vehicles (two virtual Pixhawks) OR do you want to the qGCS to be the master, commanding the two vehicles?2)…"
Dec 10, 2016
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"@Anjum, 
Thanks for your comments. Probably you would need to implement a vision based (or with other sensors) algorithm which detects the movement of the car and convert the detection into certain 'custom' Mavlink commands and send it to your…"
Dec 10, 2016
Shyam Balasubramanian replied to Shyam Balasubramanian's discussion MAVLink Tutorial for Absolute Dummies (Part –I) in ArduCopter User Group
"Sorry guys, I have been away from the forums for a while. I know most of your questions are dated back to months ago. Now that I am active, I will try to answer the questions that may come up :)"
Jul 25, 2016
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