It has come to my attention that people are not noticing this amazing app that is being produced for Android to give full missionplanner functionality and more using Mavlink to your UNMODIFIED android device
Features: Follow Me (If you device has GPS, you can set your plane or copter to follow me and it will circle or hover above your point or trail behind you as you run for it :)
Parameters (Droidplanner has a Parameters screen which allows you to correct your parameters in flight from your android device, no laptops to lug around!
Accelerometer Calibration Droidplanner has Horizon calibration to allow you to calibrate your copter in the field, which can be a life saver if you go miles to fly and find the horizon is off.)
Flightpath Planning Droidplanner Offers the ability to program your way points onto google maps with options for default altitude and more, it is very user friendly and works well!
Remote control Aircraft from app. (This app has a very special feature which allows you to Control your model from the app using a touch screen interface, this means if something went wrong and you could not use your controller, or you have a friend who wants to try flying but do not have a buddy system, you can use this feature to control your Model!)
Remote control Camera Gimble (A feature unique to Droid planner allows you to control a camera gimple plugged into the apm from the App, this means rather than buying two controllers or modifying your controller to add extra control for the camera, simply switch to camera control and you have full ability to adjust the camera position as you like.)
Live Horizon and Map view with telemetry data Switch to the flight data Tab and have full telemetry view with vocal alerts, Altitude Number of sattelites, position shown on map, Airspeed and ground speed, level and more.
These are some of the Prominent features of Droid planner, but there is so much more!.
If you want to know how to connect the MAVlink dongle to your android device it is very simple, you need to buy a chep usb to micro usb (depending on your device) adpater from somewhere like ebay or amazon, plug the one end into android device, the other into the MAV link and thats it!
Check it out, completely FREE
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidplanner
(update by mh)
You need aUSB OTG cable.
List of compatible Android devices.
(end update)
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Thanks for the very quick reply my friend, You say MAV link i take its the Ardupilot 3DR Radio Telemtry Kit 433Mhz will work?
you need to buy a cheap usb to micro usb (depending on your device) adpater from somewhere like ebay or amazon, plug the one end into android device, the other into the MAV link and thats it!
basically yes any android device, phone or tablet running android 4+ usb adapter if the tablet does not have usb and mavlink
Help a noob please... would really like to use this,
Parts required?????
The Ardupilot 3DR Radio Telemtry Kit 433Mhz
USB OTG cable Micro -B to Type A
and a Android Tablet like the nexus 7,
Would this be all thats needed please?
I will try it a little more and I'll write my comments here and my wishes on github.
Thanks for your effort in developing this interesting app!
Luciano
@Luciano
The waypoint editor just allow you to set standard waypoints. All the other waypoints will be added, when I get the time to do it.
If you can add your wishes on the waypoint editor please post them here; https://github.com/arthurbenemann/droidplanner/issues/55
And when I code i they will be included.
I've used AndroidGCS and recently I'm using Andropilot on an android smartphone (Galaxy S3) thru USB adapter.
I'd like to try also DroidPlanner ...but I can't find how to set different types of waypoints (takeoff, land, rtl, etc.) in order to plan a complete mission using smartphone/tablet. Is this function in development or is it available and I've not found it?
Thanks!
Luciano
@Stephen
When you connect the USB cable with the telemetry module does it pops up a window asking to use droidplanner?
If not you probably have some problem with drivers in you device, then I can't help you because this is very device specific (sometimes the OEM leaves the driver out of the androi system, an hat causes the problems). Here is a small guide if it can help you:
https://github.com/arthurbenemann/droidplanner/wiki/How-to-connect
Cannot get Droidplanner to connect to my generic Amaze 4.?? tablet. It just says APM not connected when I connect the working OTG cable to my 3DR radio. I know the OTG cable works as I successfully mounted a USB device. The radio works as it connects via my laptop fine.
Is there a driver I need to install on the tablet?
well this is why you need an android phone with a large screen :) my note 2 is perfect, balances nicely with the radio battery
@Jonathan Lederer:
I did the same with my radio and a 7 inch tablet, it isn't very ergonomic.
Can you explain better how you are using a Bluetooth to 3dradio? Did you wrote the Bluetooth code? Are you willing to add it to the main version of the app?
About PIDs: I'm working on a screen right now, And I think that it's possible to make the value auto refresh let's say every 2s.
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