ArdupilotMegaPlanner was written in .net which is a Microsoft language that they opened up the standards to. An opensource mutiplatform version of .net's CLR came out called mono. Ubuntu comes with mono installed so you can run ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe without installing anything. All you have to do is open ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe with mono and your golden.
Here are the steps I used to get ArdupilotMegaPlanner running. Right click on ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe and select "properties" now check the the "permissions" are set to executable. Now click on the "open with" tab click on "add" a new window will pop up and on the bottom you'll see "use custom command" type "mono" (without the "") and hit the "add" button now double click on ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe and you should be good to go. There are some glitches like the graph bars are sideways, the setup tool freezes and mavlink and pid adjuster only works through telemetry (which is fine by me because that is how I was wanting to use it any way), but the important functions like the firmware unloader, updates, and flight data work great!!
Oh ya it doesn't open a whole window just a menu bar that doesn't stand out at first. nothing is wrong it acts the same way in windows.
I would like to say thank you to Michael Oborne for writing the the program, making it open and available to all of us, and for writing it in a multi platform language that we all can use.
P.S. with mono installed Mac users should be able to use this program as will
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It does work fine - it detects update each time, a bug I reported, and was fixed before - but it does run and work as expected.
As I posted before - I needed to install:
sudo apt-get install mono-runtime libmono2.0-cil libmono-winforms2.0-cil mesa-common-dev mesa-utils
Hmm perhaps I need to install ubuntu on my laptop and give it a go - What version are you running? If it's not the latest then I suggest you update, Debian/Ubuntu have been known to drag their heels a bit with integrating new Mono releases, and Mono fixes to basic Winforms bugs are still rolling in believe me.
seriously I cant get this to work in Ubuntu at all. It opens the console, but from there doesn't do anything at all. Wine wont even run its. It really not worth the fu(£1n9 around when there is so mush else the time needs to be spent on. I certainly don't want to be out in the field stuffing around with incompatibility issues and lag time on software
i flew my new crash quad last night ( I call it crash quad because I built it purely for testing the extremes on AC/APM ) but flew with my open pilot cc and its so easy!!!.. what a great system! I hate to rag APM and I like this as well and am awed by the magnificent development done on it, but OP really leaves it for dead for ease of use. Only draw back is it doesn't have autopilot yet and its so slow to develop. I often dream of the day that OP and AC join hands and then really make some great advancements in UAV.
Done :
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/issues/detail?id=530&th...
everybody who like Mono to get some priority, add a comment to it :)
Andke - are you able to raise any issues you find in the buglist if they are not there already
Linux mono runs it just fine - values are saved properly, and there's only three minor issues:
1.- available update is detected on each start
2.- not all tabs in the configure window can actually close the window
3.- "disconnect" button does not work.
Well, I've decided that it's best to just keep running the planner via VMWare and Win7. It's much quicker than with mono and doesn't have any issues.
Thanks for the help guys!
to fix the hud goto
config > planner > and tick gdi+ tick box, and restart the planner.
for com port.
its usauly /dev/ttyUSB
You should be able to download Mono for Mac here http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html and the user guild is here http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX. It's been a while since I have used MP, because I have to edit the code to match my frame. So what I had been doing is compile and upload the code in Arduino and using Copter-GCS on my android phone through a Bluetooth serial modem to configure my copter. It has been quite a while since I have worked on my copter so I don't know what the new changes the software has.
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