{"id":994,"date":"2019-11-01T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/control-your-ardupilot-mega-rover-with-your-android-smartphone-ii\/"},"modified":"2019-11-02T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T20:12:14","slug":"control-your-ardupilot-mega-rover-with-your-android-smartphone-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/control-your-ardupilot-mega-rover-with-your-android-smartphone-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Control your Ardupilot Mega Rover with your Android Smartphone (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>As already indicated in the previous blog on the topic &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/control-your-ardupilot-mega-rover-with-your-android-smartphone\/\">Ardupilot Mega Rover with the smartphone remote control<\/a>&#8220;, now, after some further work on the topic, a new Android(TM) app &#8220;udpRC4UGV&#8221; with rover-specific functions is available. The most important enhancements are the selection of the flight mode and the toggling of channel 7 making a number of APM special functions available.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>As outlined in the previous blog a PiKoder\/SSC wRX receiver replaces the standard RC receiver in the rover. The smartphone RC uses WLAN for command transmission: the PiKoder does offer an access point (AP) to which the smartphone will connect.<\/p>\n<p>The remote control app offers a variety of user interfaces: from simple key control to a virtual joystick to an accelerometer-based option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-438\" src=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity-400x209.png 400w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity-1200x628.png 1200w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Main-activity.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the general controls for remote control, each user interface also offers the possibility to choose the flight mode. In addition, channel 7 can be triggered via the &#8220;CH7&#8221; button (for example, in LEARNING mode, the current position is saved as a waypoint).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-439\" src=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control-400x209.png 400w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control-1200x628.png 1200w, https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/udpRC4UGV-Button-control.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The app is available free of charge from the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.udprc4ugv\">Google Play Store<\/a>. The User Manual can be downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pikoder.de\/udpRC4UGV_App_EN.html\">PiKoder website<\/a>; it describes not only the program operation in detail, but also the hardware setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview As already indicated in the previous blog on the topic &#8220;Ardupilot Mega Rover with the smartphone remote control&#8220;, now, after some further work on the topic, a new Android(TM) app &#8220;udpRC4UGV&#8221; with rover-specific functions is available. The most important enhancements are the selection of the flight mode and the toggling of channel 7 making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/control-your-ardupilot-mega-rover-with-your-android-smartphone-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Control your Ardupilot Mega Rover with your Android Smartphone (II)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,54,52,61,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ardupilot-en","category-esp8266-en","category-rc","category-rover-en","category-ugv-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makerprojekte.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}