"@Yakrobat very impressive vision. If i am doing my math correctly and assuming you could read the lettering from about 100ft, that balloon was in your visible range for .2 seconds. "
"Thanks Bernt. We have gone thru a bunch of modems, they all are frustrating for different reasons. Right now we are testing with a Sierra Wireless 4G LTE modem and a Pantech UML290. It is all very carrier specific and the existing device drivers are…"
We flew our remote hexacopter on Cape Cod from over 60 miles away over a cellular connection using only this iPad interface. Beautiful day for a flight. Actual screen shot from the flight.
"Sorry Richard, was traveling. Yes it is Ubuntu, but it shouldn't matter really. As for the modems, ATT uses NAT (ie. the IP assigned to the modem is private), VZW doesn't (ie. the IP is public). They are all different. "
"Richard, the relay server is basically a proxy server with a public IP address. The hexacopter connects to the proxy server over the cellular network. The pilot app (APM planner) connects to the proxy server over a wired broadband connection all…"
"Agreed that would make it simpler but we have seen so many issues with the Pi crashing that it is kind of helpful to have the Pixhawk in the mix as well. Saved us many times"