Hi,
I’m trying to understand how things work with respect to QGC running on my Windows laptop and a fixed wing drone operating with a flight controller, camera and VTX, telemetry, and RC radio for control.
I have a Spektrum DX7s transmitter that I’d like to use in this setup; I’m also planning on something like the following components for the drone (subject to change as I figure out how this all goes together):
- Walksnail camera and VTX
- Speedybee F405 fixed wing controller running PX4 or Ardupilot
- Spektrum satellite receiver (for connectivity to the Spektrum DX7s transmitter)
- Motor, servos, etc.
I understand I can use QGC to send/program “missions” to the drone’s flight controller (eg, Speedybee F405 in this case) when the drone is nearby via Bluetooth, WiFi, USB, whatever.
With the QGC application can I view the live Walksnail video from the drone and get in-flight telemetry data displayed on the screen (overlay on the video stream would be nice) while in flight; and can I adjust the “mission” live/remotely while the drone is in flight? If so, how does this interface with the laptop/QGC? Would have to be some type of wireless transmission between the drone and the laptop of course.
I’ve read a post that mentioned this can be accomplished via telemetry radios, but is that something separate in this setup/components that I described above? I believe the Spektrum can transmit telemetry data, but I’m not sure how I would interface to the Spektrum equipment so may laptop/QGC has access?
For the video, I suspect there is some type of Walksnail VRX that connects via USB to my laptop? Or something that produces native video signal and I need to use a frame grabber or something like that (if my laptop doesn’t have that type of native video input)?
Can the telemetry data capture / real-time control of the drone flight-controller be done via the Walksnail VRX (open to different FPV systems if needed)?
Thanks in advance! If there are any good articles / blog posts, etc. on this type of setup you could point me at that explains more, I’m happy to read but didn’t find a lot via Google.
–Marc