Integration of Smart Radio with QGroundControl and the Pixhawk 4 Flight Controller: Testing

Integration of Smart Radio with QGroundControl and the Pixhawk 4 Flight Controller: Testing

Testing

We tested the two setups described above with a PC running QGC in Linux, and a Tablet running QGC in Android.

 

Video Streaming

You can view your video stream directly in QGC by navigating to the Application Settings menu and scrolling down to the video section. Following our GStreamer Example, you would tell QGC to listen at port 5000 as shown below. You should then be able to see the video stream directly in the main window. For more details, refer to the detailed guide ….




In QGroundControl, add a new Comm Link as shown in Figure 6. Change the host address to the IP address of the Smart Radio connected to the drone, and the network port to the listening port used by ser2net. Click OK, and then Connect.

 

Figure 6 – QGroundControl Setup

Linux/Windows

You can verify the MAVLink connection is good by going to the tab shown in Figure 7, and inspecting the MAVLink heartbeat.



Figure 7 – QGroundControl MAVLink Verification 

Figure 7 – QGroundControl MAVLink Verification

 

Android

As far as QGC is concerned, the setup for Android is the same as for Linux. The pictures below show results after a successful connection.