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.
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Hi Arthur,
Congratulations for this useful app for those who love android and hobby drones. I would like to know if there is experience with Asus FT101.
Regards Antonio
Hi Michael, here ya go - his name is Cosmin and he's a really nice fellow: http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/andropilot-alpha-tester-discussio...
Kevin, Is there a way I can get in touch with this person? thanks, Michael
I think there may be a problem when you update from an older version to the latest version without going trough the intermediate versions. Re-installing cleans everything.
Hi Arthur,
re-install did work.I could have tried this at first,but i didnt see the wood for the trees.
Thanks a lot for your quick help.
If none of the above works, getting a logcat of the program openning and crashing would be great. Logcat is a debug tool for android. You need to download the android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. And in eclipse select the logcat view, it will give all the debug information when droidplanner opens.
What kind of information do you need ? I can easily connect via my cell with Android 4.0.4 to droidplanner.
If i try with my nexus with Android 4.2.2 , no way.
If i start droidplanner with my nexus it just says" droidplanner was finished" and i can either click ok or send a report.
So, it seems to me its just 4.2.2
But as far as i know my fellow campaigners in here, i am sure we will sort this out.
By the way, droidplanner is a real masterpiece.
@Fred
The problem is just with the last version? Could you give me more information?
@Michael
The easiest way would be to get a tablet with a usb port and a dc charging port. Then you can easily connect the tablet to a power source.
Currently DroidPlanner doesn't support a direct connection to APM2 (you need the telemetry module, or an APM1). But if you need it we can work on it
As Kevin pointed out, keep in mind that our softwares are experimental and you shouldn't rely on them for instrument data.
Andropilot works allright
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