Accessing Navio and Executing code

First connect to the NAVIO+PI

• $ ssh pi@192.168.1.48
• Password : raspberry
• You should now have SSHed into the Navio+Pi
• Note, the drone has already been configured to connect to the lab wifi network. Also, the router assigns the same IP 192.168.1.48 to the drone every time.

Installing VENV and APIs

• pip install dronekit
• sudo emlidtool --on_boot=True
• pip freeze | grep dronekit
• Verify installation and version

Running DroneKit and other code

• Please visit DroneKit docs on github to see what each function does.
• You can code in Python 3 or C++
• To run a Python file, python test.py
• To run a C++ file, first compile and then ./test
• If everyhting is set up correctly, the drone will execute the commands given to it

Monitoring with MissionPlanner

• Start up MissionPlanner
• Connect the other TELEM USB module to your computer
• Select COM3 from top-right drop-down menu
• Click Connect
• Make sure drone is powered
• MissionPlanner should automatically connect to the drone and download all the variables and their types and start real-time monitoring