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Yocto layer to support Intel Aero platform
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AERO in Qgroundcontrol #220

Open gjkunde opened 7 years ago

gjkunde commented 7 years ago

Dear All,

in summary QGC displays

System ID 1 Airframe type Vehicle type Firmware version 1.6.2dev

what would need to be done in order to populate these fields ? Is that at problem on the AERO side or the QGP side ?

Same question for updating firmware, it would be nice if there would be a button like there is for PIXHAWK to update the firmware, rather than copying the firmware on the machine and running aerofc-update.sh Is that at problem on the AERO side or the QGP side ? What would need to be done ?

Respectfully Gerd

anselmolsm commented 7 years ago

I'm not sure about the first question, @lucasdemarchi may know the answer.

The second question, there is #202 somehow related to that.

gjkunde commented 7 years ago

Indeed, but only somewhat. I read in #202, that the idea is still get the file from /etc ... on the drone. However for the pixhawk it automatically goes out to the repository, finds standard, or beta or daily build. (One can define a custom location too, I for example compile it on my local machine), downloads and then loads the firmware ... transparent and convenient :-)

anselmolsm commented 7 years ago

@gjkunde your suggestion would be the "item c" in https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/issues/202#issuecomment-316471386 ;)

lucasdemarchi commented 7 years ago

@gjkunde our first attempt to get the same behavior as in pixhawk in QGC was rejected by upstream developers: https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/issues/4698

Our current strategy is to implement something similar to what has been discussed there: an http api that QGC can use to update the flight controller.

Note that if you are building the code yourself, it's already possible to upload directly from your computer:

For PX4:

make aerofc-v1 upload

For ArduPilot:

./waf configure --board aerofc-v1
./waf copter --upload