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GSC Support for DroneCell #354

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The ability to connect a Drone Cell to an APM for telemetry / GSC via GPRS for:
 - long range 
 - high altitude applications 
 - higher reliability than XBee
 - aircraft recovery / location purposes.
 - interference free telemetry

http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/new-product-in-the-diy-drones-2?xg_sourc
e=activity&id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A412827

Use UDP for the downlink, it doesn't matter if the odd packet gets lost along 
the way and TCP for the uplink which then guarantees delivery of any messages 
that are sent up to the APM?

The code should use dynamic dns names to allow for the IP address of the APM or 
GSC to change during flight. Thankfully someone else has already solved this 
problem on the Arduino platform and there is code here:
http://www.open-electronics.org/arduino-ddns-dynamic-dns/

Perhaps to make it simpler for users, the code could default to using the IMEI 
of the modem as the DNS name, this means a user wouldn't have to change 
anything in the code. You would just create a dyndns account and register your 
IMEI as the hostname. YOURIMEI.dnydns.org and YOURIMEI.gsc.dyndns.org for the 
ground station.

Connecting to the APM from the GSC would be a matter of typing 
YOURIMEI.dyndns.or into the GSC software. By default the APM would 
automatically try and connect to a GSC with a dns name of 
YOURIMEI.gsc.dyndns.org to minimise user configuration.

I'm more of a networky person than a coder otherwise I'd order one and have a 
crack myself. But if someone modified the code, I'd be happy to write the user 
documentation.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mil...@np.co.nz on 7 Jun 2011 at 12:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Does anyone have interest in pursuing this?

Original comment by dewei...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2011 at 9:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
hi Doug, I'll have a look at this. No promises though.

Original comment by tridg...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2011 at 7:39

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Original comment by amilcar....@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2011 at 9:37

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Original comment by andreas@antonopoulos.com on 15 Apr 2012 at 9:56