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The dRonin flight controller software.
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iOS GCS #725

Open tgreer opened 8 years ago

tgreer commented 8 years ago

Opening issue to discuss iOS GCS. There are solutions out there to create a TCP<>Serial bridge, https://github.com/beckdac/ESP8266-transparent-bridge as an example uses a $5 component.

[edit] GCS currently does TCP or UDP.

WZ9V commented 8 years ago

I'd be interested in this also.

mluessi commented 8 years ago

AFAIK, the GPL is incompatible with the app-store TOS, so the iOS GCS would need have to have a different licence and therefore would probably have to written from scratch.

tgreer commented 8 years ago

@mluessi The internet agrees with you. I think it'd need to be written from scratch anyways...

mluessi commented 8 years ago

@tgreer yeah, the license thing is unfortunate. One possibility could be to build a Qt / QML based app, which would have the advantage that it would also work on Android. In addition, we could probably license the app such that components from it could be used in the normal GCS (but not the other way around).

The question is, what is the scope of the app? Recreate the whole GCS, i.e., board configuration, calibration, etc, or do we want an app for doing navigation flights (setting waypoints etc)? The latter may be more easily accomplished by improving our MAVLINK support, so existing apps for APM could be used.

tgreer commented 8 years ago

I'd like it to be as featured as the existing Android one... Granted if we're starting from scratch the remit can be whatever the dev decides... I would like it to be fully functioning... but I can dream, right ;)

On 1 March 2016 at 12:41, Martin Luessi notifications@github.com wrote:

@tgreer https://github.com/tgreer yeah, the license thing is unfortunate. One possibility could be to build a Qt / QML based app, which would have the advantage that it would also work on Android. In addition, we could probably license the app such that components from it could be used in the normal GCS (but not the other way around).

The question is, what is the scope of the app? Recreate the whole GCS, i.e., board configuration, calibration, etc, or do we want an app for doing navigation flights (setting waypoints etc)? The latter may be more easily accomplished by improving our MAVLINK support, so existing apps for APM could be used.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/d-ronin/dRonin/issues/725#issuecomment-190707649.

WZ9V commented 8 years ago

I'm willing to help but I'm currently in over my head working on a BLHELI GUI in Qt that I'm hoping can be the basis for adding that functionality to the GCS. Keep in mind I'm also learning Qt at the same time ;-)

sonicxx commented 8 years ago

There's also the possibility of releasing without the App Store as an enterprise app. Also there is cydia for jailbreakers.

If full functionality is desired, reusing the code is a good leg up. I don't see any down side, except for the sourcing and cost of an Enterprise certificate.

Also, VLC is back in the AppStore and was the major GPL example. I think maybe they believe that because they are distributing binaries/source separately from the App Store and they include the rights on those, it's a superset of the existing App Store license.

sonicxx commented 8 years ago

Apparently it had something to do with Mozilla software licensing? As to why they feel they are in full compliance.

mlyle commented 8 years ago

Yes, if it's licensed under a license that doesn't have the "no further restrictions" clause all is good.

Unfortunately it requires consent of license holders to do this.