UAVcast. Software for Companion Computer based UAV`s

SkyDrone

Hi Billy,

looks like you are based in Hong Kong as well. If you would like to try out our Sky Drone FPV 2 system, I am happy to help. Shoot us an email at info@skydrone.aero.

stavros

Sinamics

Any luck, my friend?

Sinamics

stavros Sorry, not yet. There has been alot of work lately. Will do my best to test this wihtin couple of days.

BillyLam

Sinamics
Hello Brent,
Hope you doing great ! , I’ve been quite busy also lately too. So my project has been a pause from a mouth ago. if you need some log data for testing please give me a shout and I will config my pi again.

DorHalperin1

i cant open the web brower configuration from my pi 0 on my desktop, can you explain how to use the new Uavcast configuration ?

mocart

DorHalperin1 i cant open the web brower configuration from my pi 0 on my desktop

Check if you can open it locally from RPI browser http://127.0.0.1

kevinpallado

Good day. We are on our way to do the UAVcasting but when we try to start the casting we got an error on gstreamer part. Could you help us solve this problem ? Thank you. Have a good day.

kevinpallado

and also while following the tutorials I got this error while executing the command in windows terminal

Sinamics

#update

UAVcast v0.4.4 is pushed to github.

Fixed installation issue on newer PI3 models.

I know there is a bug in gstreamer pipeline for C920, but my camera is broken so i cant do any testing at the moment, If anyone has a working pipeline for logitech C920 then please paste it here and i can add that to UAVcast.

/Bernt Chr

Sinamics

Quick installation guide

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vWmoIFS5I9n-0g5OxtR5Sl7bYDRDBh0/view?usp=sharing

archaeopteryx

Hi Bernt, love this project! I have encountered what appear to be a few bugs installing on a RPi3. Following the installation instructions I end up with v0.4.3 instead of 0.4.4 which is supposed to be the latest release. In addition, when running systemctl start UAVcast it fails and systemctl status UAVcast gives the following messages:

Apr 03 20:34:32 raspberrypi bash[1412]: Network available.
Apr 03 20:34:32 raspberrypi bash[1412]: Seems like RPI is connected to Internet, all ok.
Apr 03 20:34:32 raspberrypi sudo[1444]:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pi/UAVcast ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/home/pi/UAVcast/script/./cmavnode.sh
Apr 03 20:34:32 raspberrypi sudo[1444]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Apr 03 20:34:32 raspberrypi bash[1412]: 03/04/2018 20:34:32
Apr 03 20:34:33 raspberrypi bash[1412]: Serial streaming script started
Apr 03 20:34:33 raspberrypi bash[1412]: If you see this message, then Network was successfully loaded.
Apr 03 20:34:33 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started UAVcast Drone Software.
Apr 03 20:34:34 raspberrypi bash[1412]: /home/pi/UAVcast/script/./cmavnode.sh: line 49: /home/pi/UAVcast/script/../log/Mavproxy.log: No such file or directory
Apr 03 20:34:34 raspberrypi sudo[1444]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

If I manually create the folder and file /log/Mavproxy.log in the UAVcast directory the service will then run but I am unable to receive telemetry on the GCS. Currently I am running the Raspberry Pi and the GCS computer on the same LAN with a router to verify I can get the system to work before I try with a 4G modem.

Any thoughts?

Sinamics

Hi archaeopteryx
Thank you for the feedback. I just reliased that UAVcast does not check whether or not log directory exists and probably crash if not.. will update that. I removed the log dir in my last commit couple of days ago..

could you post the output of Mavproxy (in UAVcast diagnostic page) ?

archaeopteryx

Sinamics

Raspberry output stream::

Found 2 links
Valid Serial Link: aseriallink Found at: /dev/ttyAMA0, baud: 57600
Valid UDP Link: audplink Found at 192.168.0.100:14550 -> 0
Command line arguments parsed succesfully.
Links Initialized, routing loop starting.

Double-checked Rx and Tx wires, GCS IP address and port. Connecting via UDP just hangs on the "Mavlink Connecitng. . ." screen in Mission Planner. I should also add that I am only trying to stream telemetry at the moment, no video.

Sinamics

Make sure to:

Properly connected RX / TX wires. As described in the first post.
Added correct IP adress for your GCS computer in UAVcast Setup => Ground Control Station page.
Using the correct port, Default 14550.

Start UAVcast & Mission Planner and connect using UDP. 🚀 🚀 🚀

LuGan

Hi Sinamics
Thanks for all the instructions and contributions to the UAVcast. It is really helpful. I have carefully followed all the instructions. I first ran the installation as pi user, and the installation is quite smooth, no trouble connecting to the web and did all the configuration. Since currently i am using wifi for internet because i think if you have internet available, the UAVcast can work. So i set no for the cellular modem. But the UAVcast cannot start and it just returned "null" in the command terminal. I cannot figure it out. I thought it might be the permission problem. So reinstalled everything as super user. But UAVcast still cannot start and just return "null" and showed no internet available. But there was internet on my pi, i could open goolge on the internet browser of the pi. I would appreciate it if you can give me some ideas how to solve it. Thanks.

Sinamics

LuGan UAVcast will start even though RPI is not connected to internet, but you obviously need to be online if you going to send the telem / video stream somewhere.

You dont need to select a modem either, as long as RPI is connected to your local netwrok and can talk to your GCS you are fine.
Could you please post the output from SYSTEMD tab located in Diagnostic => UAVcast page.

LuGan

Sinamics

Hi thanks for the swift reply, i was really surprised. The image is as attached. Thank you very much.

Sinamics

LuGan UAVcast has successfully started, but since there is not network available it wont start cmavnode (Mavproxy) for the telemetry, nor will it try to start gstreamer if you have that selected in the config.

Are you sure RPI has online connection using the wif adapter?

If you type in sudo ping google.com in the RPI Diagnostic page. (Custom Terminal Command)

LuGan

Sinamics
I have already tried what you suggested, no packets received from the google server. But I am pretty sure that i have internet connection because i have no problem openning YouTube, google or any other websites on my pi. That's why i am really confused since the wrong message always told me "no internet available". But it's true that i do have.
But i am using my school network which is WPA enterprise, and our school IT team has set up some firewall. I do have experience of blocking out when i tried to host some servers on top of my school network. I tried to "ping -c 1 google.com" on my own laptop, it also got no packet back. But my laptop definitely has network otherwise i cannot reply your. By the way, i also tried to connect my pi through my phone hotspot instead of the school network. The pi also got no package back from google.com. I really get confused right now😂

Sinamics

I should probably reduce some of the online checks when UAVcast starts mavproxy and gstreamer. It could be usefull to start everything no matter what the online connection status is.

Currently the startup code looks like this:
https://github.com/UAVmatrix/UAVcast/blob/d65f24b081cd40a3a8509b082418d086011b6fc7/script/DroneCode.sh#L25

Sinamics

LuGan
Try adding googles DNS server to raspberry pi.

nano /etc/resolvconf.conf

then add

name_servers=8.8.8.8
name_servers=8.8.4.4

save and restart.

If that wont work, try adding dns servers to resolve.conf,

nano /etc/resolv.conf

add nameservers:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Then lock the resolv.conf from beein overwritten during reboot

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

If you want to edit resolve.conf again, then type this to unlock.

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

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