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Thanks for the post about this. I have a Parrot Disco that I was planning to take for its first flight in about two years next weekend. Honestly these companies

• tetris11 3y ago
  For Disco you're in luck, there are some really decent ardupilot-based projects out there[1]. Plus, unlike the Bebop camera which is inaccessible via the shell (you can only use the Parrot SDK), the Disco camera can be commanded to stream/record with a few simple commands, and even bound to controller inputs. A caveat with the controller: it needs to have custom firmware[2] to get it communicating with ardupilot, and to get the firmware onto the controller you need telnet/adb into it via SkyController→usb→ethernet→usb→Laptop adaptor(s) setup. For a ground control system (GCS), there's three to choose from: Mission Planner, APM Planner, and QGroundControl[3] (ignore the rest, use this one). For configuring the drone, mission planner is pretty good... but you can also just use MavProxy[4] which is a fantastic commandline program that all the GCSes use in some way, and can even be installed in Termux/Android. 1: https://github.com/uavpal/disco4g/ https://github.com/uavpal/disco4g/ 2: https://github.com/ArduPilot/dema-rc/ https://github.com/ArduPilot/dema-rc/ 3: https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol 4: https://github.com/ArduPilot/MAVProxy https://github.com/ArduPilot/MAVProxy