Pixhawk controll using raspberry pi

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Hi,
I want to control pixhawk using raspberry pi 2!
Is it possible to do that?
Thanks

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http://dev.px4.io/ros-raspberrypi-installation.html and http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/raspberry-pi-via-mavlink.html maybe give you some information

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Hi,
It is currently work in progress but feel free to join in and get this working.
Julian

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Thanks,
What i need is that I want to control the drone using raspberry pi and send throttle/aileron/elevator/rudder command and control the drone using the radio when its necessary.

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Please explain more.

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As I said it’s unfortunately work in progress. Feel free to flash it, dive into the code and start tinkering with it. I’ll report back when things are in better shape.

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Is there any version of the nightly changes that i could view the progress? thanks

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No but you can check the pull requests that are tagged with “raspberry_pi”:

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Is it a really big issue to send commands? its easy to do that in multiwii,apm and etc!

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@Ahmadi I think this is a misunderstanding. We do of course support sending commands from a RPI:

http://dev.px4.io/offboard-control.html
http://dev.px4.io/ros-raspberrypi-installation.html

http://dev.px4.io/dronekit-example.html

What Julian meant is running the flight control code on RPI. That is work in progress and some developers are flying it already.

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@LorenzMeier, is Dronekit an alternative to using ROS, or a supplementary set of packages? From what I’ve read, it seems that both are used as a medium to send Mavlink data to the Pixhawk, and that you can use either one individually.

Is this something that’s fully developed, or a work in progress? I haven’t found many examples of fully running code online where an RP2 is controlling the Pixhawk. I plan on trying this out soon.

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