4G telemetry for Pixhawk

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Hey guys !

I am a newbie in drone world. I’ m resourcing about my thesis. So, I have a few questions about pixhawk. I want to control my drone from a companion computer. I want to do whatever I will do, from a computer (like FPV, tracking or follow me). Every data that will process must process in companion computer. I want to connect my drone to base via LTE. So, I want to use public LTE networks and overcome the limited range problem. Here comes my questions,

  1. Can pixhawk communicate via LTE network to base? (I saw a lot of example with Raspberry and APM but not with pixhawk) What are the additional devices for it ? (I saw ublox link in pixhawk website, but the link is dead :frowning: )

  2. If I want to add FPV Camera on my drone for real time streaming, Can I send video data with same device ?

  3. Can I integrate pixhawk with SIM900 ? Can I use for these 2 things (FPV and control orders) ? Is it enough ?

  4. What are your recommends for me ? I need LTE telemetry for my drone. I didn’t chose the control card. I resourced about 4G telemetry. There is a lot of videos but nobody tells HOW ? Which control card and additional device are suitable for my goal ?

I know that I want a lot of answer. But a link that you comment can be helpful for me. :slight_smile:
Thank you.

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a lot easier just to do this… http://4gmetry.voltarobots.com/

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You might also want to check out Sky Drone FPV 2. It streams video and data over LTE out of the box and is optimized for MAVLink.

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Hi there. I can´t find much documentation and experiences about this module. So what are you capable to do with this? I get the picture from 4Gmetry website and I can see a FrSky receiver there… I´m really confused. If you are using 4g telemetry unit, why would you need an RC receiver ??

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yes you would still want a FrSky RX as a primary flght control…they are very cheap so why wouldnt you

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Can´t you do primary flight control trough 4G telemetry? That´s the issue I have. What´s is the difference between primary flight control and telemetry?

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Be carefule. 4Gmetry does not support PX4 flight stack but Ardupilot in Pixhawk.
You can make this device just via installing gstreamer, mavproxy on Odroid XU4.

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Is there any documentation for this??

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@cumbaba10 If you have a companion computer with the pixhawk, using 4G for telemetry / LTE is quite straight forward.

You can use mavlink-router to route your telemetry and use gstreamer to stream video over LTE and to QGC

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Can I use mission planner? Is there any documentation?

How to use mavlink router and gstreamer?

I’ve pixhawk 2.1 cube and RPi 3. Currently I’m using it for Mavproxy and dronekit python.
I need to connect pixhawk to mission planner using LTE for long range.

Please share a link or documents if you have any.

Thanks

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@rijun034 The links are inlcuded in my answer

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Anybody able to achieve this successfully with the PX4 stack?

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@crisdeodates I would say it is quite widely used, and it is more of a problem of routing mavlink packets rather than related to the PX4 flight stack itself.

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Hi , i wrote this article here

I use 4G LTE modem connect to companion computer RPI 3 and Apsync. I can receive telemetry and video streaming. The raspberry is connected to telemetry port and work as gateway to send data in ethernet

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@Dpatella, one of the most wanted guides… Thank you so much

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Thank , i will try to post a next article where to show some configuration script and the first outdoor test

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