3DR Solo is equipped with a companion computer....telemetry over cellular candidate?

Dave_Folts

I posted this item earlier this morning to diydrones:
Happy New Year to the group. I was casually looking through the Hackster site and I discovered my new SOLO has a companion computer connected via a bus that looks very much like that used by the Intel Edison. See Solo teardown pics here

Notice Here on this project that logging into the Solo over it's wifi net is straightforward.

Ok...so I want to use some of the py scripts described on this group to eventually add a cellular link to my Solo....

...where should I start?

Dave

Dave_Folts

Update....look here for the Solo Accessory Bay signal connections: http://dev.3dr.com/hardware-accessorybay.html Too cool....

Sinamics

Quite interesting subject.
This should be possible, but you need to find a way to forward the UAV CanBus packages to GCS and deCode them "as i see it".

All software is opensource, so all information is availible. Read this page for the CanBus Transport layer.

Do you want to exclude the regular transmitter and only use e.g mission plannner and GamePad?
Or both?

Dave_Folts

I'd like to do both...seems to me I should be able to connect a 4G lte modem to the usb and add drivers and scripts to copy the 3dr solo link over the usb modem cellular connection....

Dave_Folts

id like to bring the 3dr sololink over the usb to a 4g lte modem....would need to have the drivers and py scripts to add the path over cellular via the usb modem....

Dave_Folts

I did try to use gstreamer to place the gopro video coming off the Solo into the Mission Planner HUD....didn't work, although gstreamer appeared to run the cm script you use Bernt. I did not get a window of video either...
At any rate, I was able to log into the SOLO today using Win SCP on my Surface 3. Solo is at sftp://10.1.1.10. See pic for directory structure I found.

image 1379931895688305e30153309515764.jpeg

Sinamics

Try to connect using telnet or ssh..
Then type

lsb_release -a

It should list the Linux Distribution Name and version.

Dave_Folts

I got a "command not found" in response...

Dave_Folts

Solo Development Guide. This is where I'll go next on this project. http://dev.3dr.com/

Sinamics

It looks like the onboard specifications would be enough to run a USB cell dongle.
See bellow spec.

Freescale iMX6 model used is the MCIMX6S5DVM10AC.

Core Processor: ARM® Cortex®-A9
Number of Cores/Bus Width: 1 Core, 32-Bit
Speed: 1.0GHz
Co-Processors/DSP Multimedia: NEON™ SIMD
RAM Controllers: LPDDR2, LVDDR3, DDR3
Graphics Acceleration: Yes
Ethernet: 10/100/1000 Mbps (1)
USB: USB 2.0 + PHY (4)
Voltage - I/O: 1.8V, 2.5V, 2.8V, 3.3V
Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 95°C
Security Features: ARM TZ, Boot Security, Cryptography, RTIC, Secure Fusebox, Secure JTAG, Secure Memory,
Secure RTC, Tamper Detection
Additional Interfaces: CAN, I²C, I²S, MMC/SD/SDIO, SAI, SPI, SSI, UART

useful links.

http://www.nxp.com/files/32bit/doc/data_sheet/IMX6SDLCEC.pdf

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A2018242&xg_source=activity&page=2#comments

Solo teardown Pictures and manuals can be downloaded from here.
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ACGZjLYBcKR0Y5U&id=823C4E3E8064B62F%21550&cid=823C4E3E8064B62F