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GroundStation

Posted by Jason Short on October 14, 2009 at 3:36pm

My Flash based ground station is now up and running. I'm using Serproxy to connect Flash to the Serial Port and the Xbee radios. I have a simple command parser on the plane integrated with the the GPS parser so I can have 2 way comm over the single serial port. I can send basic WP commands or PI tuning values. GPS is collected and output as KML values through Copy and Paste.

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Torin Segstro July 17, 2010 at 10:03pm

This is a bit of a longshot, but I think it might be interesting. I have a small 7" monitor that runs on 12v. Currently I use it for FPV. What I'm thinking, is that I use my netbook to display this groundstation with analog guages, and use the secondary small monitor to display the moving map. Could be an interesting setup. Now, if only I can find a CHEAP 10" monitor with an HDMI or DVI connector.
Earl July 15, 2010 at 4:22pm

Telnet works fine now...see data from mega !
Tim Carmichael July 15, 2010 at 4:20pm

@Earl

I noticed in your serproxy cfg that another line is missing that I have in mine by default.

# Transform newlines coming from the serial port into nils
# true (e.g. if using Flash) or false
newlines_to_nils=true
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Nathaniel Caner July 15, 2010 at 4:18pm

Jason,

Thanks for the effort! You know if you didn't make it look so attractive we wouldn't make so much work for you.

Since you asked, my only want is as I posted above, drop the Google maps window and let the analog gauges shine!

Thanks,

Nathaniel
Earl July 15, 2010 at 4:16pm

yea, I noticed my netport mistake. changed to 9. Telnet no rx yet
Tim Carmichael July 15, 2010 at 4:15pm

I just figured out why the GCS would not read the data from serproxy.

I had also change the net_port3 settings (COM3 in my case) to = 5331.

Now the GCS is reading pitch and roll data at least.
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Jason Short July 15, 2010 at 4:07pm

I'm sorry guys, This version really is just for me and is full of quirks that only I know about.
I will rework it so it is user friendly. Any suggestions or wants? I will post it as soon as I can.
Tim Carmichael July 15, 2010 at 4:00pm

@Earl
You might try changing the "net_port1=5331" to "net_port9=5331" and then try to telnet to the 127.0.0.1 5331 as Jason suggested.

@Jason
I was successful in establishing a telnet session to the serproxy and seeing the same output as the serial port monitor in the Arduino IDE. However, once I initiate the connection the GCS, the information does not change even if I click on the "Read" button.
Earl July 15, 2010 at 3:59pm

I telneted into iit ok... got press any key to continue...anything but a space bar dumps me.
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Jason Short July 15, 2010 at 3:57pm

i'm not a PC user, but in mac/unix you can telnet to

telnet 127.0.0.1 5331

This will output the raw data to the unix terminal.