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Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter

Posted by Bart on June 8, 2011 at 6:00pm

GPSSample.png?width=420Hello all,

After some field testing, i'm finally ready to release a copy of the Android based, bluetooth GCS for ArduCopter into the wild.

For all the details go to the site.

Its available in 3 ways:

  • Install from Android Market ($5, largely to offset publishing costs/support development) Copter-GCS
  • Install the APK from the download section (Free)
  • Build from source, following these instuctions.

The reason for the market version is for those who would like to just install in the easiest way possible / receive automatic updates or would like to support development costs (thanks you) such as the fee required to publish on the market.

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Current features:

  • GPS plotting of phone and GPS, quad path rendering and logging of the track to the SD card.
  • Sensor graphing
  • Status display, such as current mode and GPS state
  • Setup
    • PID Tuning
    • Accelerometer Offsets, both traditional and using the drift direction
    • Transmitter Calibration

Let me know how it works for those that try :)

Bart.

 

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Comments

  • Chinlin January 5, 2013 at 5:07pm

    good to know! thanks!

  • Vincent Mees January 5, 2013 at 6:00am

    It should work. I've tried 2,4Ghz and 900 Mhz with no problem.

    But not with APM.

  • Chinlin January 4, 2013 at 9:27pm

    great! Have anyone done the BT bridge  to 433MHZ RF yet to talk with APM yet?

    In my thought, it should be just to connect to TTL level TX/RX of BT module to 433MHZ RF RX/TX pin.

    anything missing?

    thanks

  • Vincent Mees November 20, 2012 at 11:55am

    Ah, now I get a hearbeat but still no data.

    bds is at 57600, same as xbee.

  • Vincent Mees November 20, 2012 at 6:53am

    Any news on the development?

    I'm using android 4.1.1. , can connect to bluetooth and bridges appears but then I can't get any data.

  • Andre K. October 31, 2012 at 5:10am

    if you can't update, then the only solution is to build it yourself from source, using proper Android SDK.

  • Andre K. October 29, 2012 at 11:23am

    now that's seriously old Android.

    Luckily you can, run at least ICS on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSWg2dLPFA

    So just update.

  • Bart July 11, 2012 at 4:09pm

    @luca

    I have much of the USB stack working on copter-GCS, but cannot do that last (small) bit without a tablet and some debugging.

    Work is nuts, but at some point (months), once I buy a tablet, I can tie in the USB. All my projects have been frozen for some time now.

    Sorry,

    Bart

  • Andre K. May 21, 2012 at 12:36pm

    mee too, it'a pity that Michael's Mission Planner is made using .net and not QT.  - then it would be very easy to compile it for Android.

  • Andre K. March 31, 2012 at 4:31am

    Who's using MAVLink 1.0 ? - APM planner + default firmware uses 0.9 ?

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