Connecting via USB

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This guide assumes, that Digital Patron FPV is setup by our company.

To connect the Digital Patron FPV to the GCS running on your device please follow these steps:

1

Turn on Digital Patron FPV

Turn on Digital Patron FPV by pressing power button until GPS module starts blinking.

2

Turn on GCS

Start the GCS application on your device.

3

Connect Digital Patron FPV with your device.

Use a micro-USB cable to connect Digital Patron FPV to your device.

4

Set up communication link in the GCS

  1. Click on the Airvolute icon in the top left corner.

  2. Choose Application Settings.

  3. Open Comm Links in the menu on the left hand side.

  4. Click on the Add button on the bottom of the screen.

  5. Enter name: FPV Digital USB.

  6. Change Type to UDP.

  7. Set Port to 13550 and click OK.

  8. Choose the Comm Link you created and click on the Connect button.

Step 1: Open settings.
Step 2: Open Application Settings.
Step 3: Open Comm Links.
Steps 4-7: Add a new link.
Step 8: Connect the new link.

The Digital Patron FPV should now be connected to the GCS.

5

Set up video streaming

Set up UDP sink host address on the Digital Patron FPV. Log in to the UAV. If using Ubuntu, you can access drone's filesystem using command:

and enter password (default password is dronecore ).

Now open the fpv-video config file with location: /etc/fpv-vision/config.yaml .

Configure udpsink host address according to the following image.

Setting UDP sink host address for video streaming.

Configure video streaming in GCS with the following steps:

  1. Click on the Airvolute icon in the top left corner.

  2. Choose Application Settings.

  3. In the General tab under Video Settings select UDP h.264 Video Stream.

  4. Under UDP Port type 5400.

  5. Click elsewhere and exit the settings to save the change.

Video Streaming settings.

The Digital Patron FPV should now be streaming video to the GCS.

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