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New Mission Planner GCS feature: integrated OSD video!

Posted by Chris Anderson on June 11, 2011 at 8:00pm

3689412367?profile=originalIf you update to the latest Mission Planner (1.05) you'll see a cool new feature Michael Oborne has just added: integrated OSD video! Just select your video input device from your aircraft's camera feed from the Configuration screen (Planner tab) and it will replace the background of the artificial horizon on the GCS, turning it into a heads-up display instead, as shown in the left window above.

 

Pretty cool, huh? It's a virtual OSD!

 

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  • mc_don June 14, 2011 at 11:20am

    nice..

    but can i change the baudrate to 9600bps?

    couse i only have low rate wirelless. :(

  • Chuck June 14, 2011 at 1:42am

    How do you send it out to the goggles?

  • Andrew Fernie June 13, 2011 at 5:26pm

    Can you undock and resize the video window.  If not, it would be a really useful feature for a dual monitor setup.

    Or send it to HMD (via a VGA to composite converter if neccesary). Not sure if the latemcy in the transfers would result in PIO (pilot induced oscillation), but worth a try, HMD are on the way...

     

    Great application - interface is intuitive and attractive.

    Thank you

     

     

  • anaximander June 13, 2011 at 11:06am

    Now that is a nice feature. I wonder how hard it would be to get this running on something small enough to use as a handheld... I'm thinking Android SDK, Motorola Xoom and some custom thumbsticks...

  • Martin Bellomo June 13, 2011 at 6:00am

    Awesome ! The look and the virtual OSD is GREAT !

  • Art June 13, 2011 at 4:34am
    Can you undock and resize the video window.  If not, it would be a really useful feature for a dual monitor setup.
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    u4eake June 13, 2011 at 4:17am
    MAn, this is an awesome feature ! I had a 5.8Ghz videoset lying around to mount on my hexa when I got comfortable flying it manually. The idea was to try fpv, but this is gonna speed things up. Gonna mount video this afternoon !
  • Thomas Fankhauser June 12, 2011 at 11:39pm

    Hi Chris!

    First, excuse my bad english.
    Congratulation for your great pice of software. The Video Background with the HUD is a really big improvement. Really nice!

    Now I would have a idea for a very intersting, new feature. I have nevere seen this bevore:

    What do you think about, to project different feastures in the OSD? My idea is to show something like waypoints, obstacles and even runnways virtually in the Display. This could be a great help for FPV pilots. (Landing in the dark or even in bad weather conditions)

    I know, the lag from the GPS and data processing may be a little problem, but when you fly straight for just a few seconds, it should be precise enought.

    The IMU and the GPS delivers all importand parameters (X,Y,Z and the viewing Vector). The features could be displayed just as lines (x1,y1,z1,x2,y2,z2 and a colour...) the only Variables what we would need additionally is the focal length of the camera and a viewing offset in degree, if the camera is not mounted perfectly in direction of flight (dx,dy).

    I could help with the coding. Normally I like VB, you wrote the programm in C. What developement tool you use?

    Greetings,
    Thomas

  • Agustin Monteverdi June 12, 2011 at 10:21pm
    omg i want to see a video of this! awesome.
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson June 12, 2011 at 5:15pm

    Mac users: please use it under Parallels or another virtual machines

    Linux users: Please use Qgroundcontrol, which runs natively under Linux, instead.

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