Support custom download / web server URL

mavlink / qgroundcontrol

Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)

http://qgroundcontrol.io

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Support custom download / web server URL #2628

Open LorenzMeier opened 8 years ago

LorenzMeier commented 8 years ago

@DonLakeFlyer When working with non-developer early adopters we start to run into cases where we would need to provide them auto-built binaries but off custom builds. We need to generalise the download locations for PX4. Any particular suggestions?

LorenzMeier commented 8 years ago

Urls for PX4 on Pixhawk: https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/blob/master/src/VehicleSetup/FirmwareUpgradeController.cc#L216-L218

AndreasAntener commented 8 years ago

Suggestion for startup parameters (or something similar), to narrow down the update choices:

base URL
types (apm, px4, custom binary)
which of the 3 types should be available (stable, beta, dev)

DonLakeFlyer commented 8 years ago

provide them auto-built binaries but off custom builds.

Two versions of Custom:

Custom (local file)
Custom (download) prompt for url

DonLakeFlyer commented 8 years ago

Curious as to why you would need something built into QGC for this. Seems like it just add complexity to things. Why not:

Email them build
or Provide then a url to the build, they then click that in a browser which downloads it to there machine
Then they just use Custom to install?

DonLakeFlyer commented 8 years ago

I'm planning to move this to 3.1 release. Speak up now if you disagree.