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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@Shyam Balasubramanian
It should work out of the box (but for direct connection you need to go into settings and change the baud to 115k). Please re-post this with a little more description of what you tried and what happened on the support forum:
http://ardupilot.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=15
I have Samsung Duos (Android based, but it is not a tablet). I bought the micro USB to USB converter and connected it via USB @ 115 Kbps baud rate.
I hear the sound 'Disconnected disconnected'. Any clue if there is some device driver that needs to be installed in here, and should it work out of the box?
@Kevin Hester, thanks, I tried, but it didn't work, no connexion at all. I have a pixhawk and a samsung galaxy S2 (rooted and usb-host activated). I tried both 57600 and 115200 link speeds. When I click on "connexion", something appears for about 1/10s in the taskbar then disappears. Looks like the galaxy S2 is not compatible.
@francois, yep you can - just plug it into the APM and it should work.
Hi, and thanks for developping this amazing soft.
One question : could we imagine to directly connect the smartphone to the card mini-usb ? This could be great for people who doesn't care about telemetry but wants to configure parameters or waypoints.
Thanks
@Shyam: If it has the minimum requirements I don't see why not: https://github.com/arthurbenemann/droidplanner/wiki/Compatible-Devices
Hi,
Nice work! I wanted to know if I can use Droid planner on any Samsung phone? I have Samsung Duos (the small 4-inch screen), don't have a android tablet.
Thanks.
On first glance, DroidPlanner works with my ASUS Transformer TF101, which has a full-size USB port on the keyboard dock. I am looking forward to trying it in the field (literally) where I fly.
@viky @Geoff: Currently you can't, as Geoff says.
But we plan to support it in the future, because maybe a local Analog2IP encoder could do the digitization fast enough (no need for compression on a local WiFi link).
No, you can't. In order to do this you'd need to transcode the video feed in real time to a format that android supports, like HLS or mp4, which is not only very CPU intensive (so your battery would die much faster) but it would also introduce a bit of lag into your video stream, so you'd be seeing delayed video, which is very bad when flying FPV.
You are much better off getting a pair of video goggles or a small screen and using one of the available video transmission systems.
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