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APM Planner 2.0 RC2 on Raspberry Pi

Posted by Stefan Olofsson on January 28, 2014 at 3:00am

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I just managed to get APM Planner RC2 running on my Raspberry Pi. I have not tested connecting to an APM yet but clicking around in the interface is much more responsive than i ever thought it would be.

Here are a brief instruction:


Install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install phonon libqt4-dev \ libphonon-dev libphonon4 phonon-backend-gstreamer \ qtcreator libsdl1.2-dev libflite1 flite1-dev build-essential \ libopenscenegraph-dev libssl-dev


Clone the repository in your workspace:
cd ~/workspace git clone https://github.com/diydrones/apm_planner


Build APM Planner:
cd ~/workspace/apm_planner qmake-qt4 qgroundcontrol.pro
make


Run APM Planner:
./release/apmplanner2

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  • Joe Sleator January 19, 2015 at 2:03am

    This project can no longer be built. I tried with the latest version of Mission Planner, and also grabbed the archived 2.0.0-rc2.

    It would be great to be able to try this out. Perhaps the RC Tech.se or Magnus might want to re-compile the thing from current library installs? I'm not familiar enough with the current QT (last work I did with it was in 2009) to figure out what the problem is.

  • Kelvin Shirley February 22, 2014 at 2:00pm

    I did try that, although on my Windows machine it is set to 115200 and that connects with no issues.

  • Tommy Larsen February 22, 2014 at 12:12pm

    Should be 57600....?

  • Kelvin Shirley February 22, 2014 at 11:31am

    I have this installed on my PI. However I am struggling to get it to connect to my APM 2.6, it seems to connect to the serial port but not to the APM. It is connecting too ttyACM0 @ 115200, anyone have an idea as to what I have wrong?

  • Magnus von Rosen February 1, 2014 at 7:40am

    Hi guys,

    I had to try this, and I made a simple video showing the experience. I don't know much about Linux, but I was able to get it all working following RCTechs guide above. Thanks RCTech!

    Here is the video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q1M9mO1DxY

    In essence: CPU is a big bottleneck, but I'd say that it could work OK if you can accept sluggish map panning.

    Experience is much slower with Telemetry and an open connection.

    KR

    Magnus, Sweden

  • Stephen Gloor January 29, 2014 at 2:35am

    Hi - thanks for this - used the instructions to install it on my server running lubuntu 12.04 - worked a treat.

    Will have a go on the BeagleBone later on.

  • Luis Carlos Barrios Fedechen January 28, 2014 at 2:32pm

    Hi..congratulations....for installation in Beaglebone black the same similar procedure installation it's ok or need to diferent package?? I read Beaglebone offer hdmi output and arm7 processor....ubuntu works in videos I see in youtube...any of users here tried the Beaglebone black board??

    Regards

  • Tommy Larsen January 28, 2014 at 1:32pm

    So cool, neighbor! :)

    I need to try this right away :)

  • John Moore January 28, 2014 at 8:40am

    Interesting

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    Bill Bonney January 28, 2014 at 8:25am
    Great work... Its good to see that this works without any unexpected hiccups.
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