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This will allow any other camera connected to the Solo to be triggered by the Solo's shutter controls if no GoPro is connected. So, if no GoPro is connected, it will send the mavlink command for triggering the shutter in ArduCopter. Whatever servo output have defined as a camera trigger will fire.
WELCOME TO OPEN SOLO
Annoucements
NEW: CONSOLIDTED REPOSITORY IS HERE
Many of the seperate github repositories for the various aspects of Open Solo have been consolidated into one central repo, which is where you are now. Anything that wasn't a fork of another repo has been converted to a subdirectory of this repo. This includes sololink, shotmanager, solo-builder, artoo, sololink-python, stm32loader, meta-3dr, and yocto base. Conveniently, these are the repos that see the most ongoing development. As such, it will be much easier to manage that work in one place. Releases, tags, and branches will have some logic and consistency. The commit history from the old separate repos has been retained and all show up here still, so history is not lost or forgotten.
Mavproxy and mavlink-solo remain separate repos, included here as submodules. These are forks from ArduPilot, and shall remain in their repos for that reason. Ultimately, it would be great to just use the master ArduPilot repos, but the Solo's firmware is too old. So these forks are circa 2016. The imx6-linux and imx6-uboot are also still in their own repos. They are forks, and have tens of thousands of commits each. They also are untouched since 2016, and will probably remain so.
ArduPilot-solo is the repo for the old stock ArduCopter firmware from 3DR. It is a fork from ArduPilot, stale since 2016 other than one commit for Open Solo 3. This will as such be remaining its own repo, included here as a submodule for reference. Once ArduCopter 3.7 stable is released, this repo will be obsolete and deprecated.
ARDUCOPTER 3.7-DEV TESTING
Click here for release notes and instructions as of December 8, 2018 for beta testing ArduCopter 3.7-dev on the Solo. You must already be on Open Solo to do this. This is a major beta testing project.
OPEN SOLO v3.0.0 STABLE RELEASE ON JANUARY 1, 2018
The team working on safe, reliable releases of Open Solo publishes them here. You can read all the details in the release notes, and link directly to installation instructions. These are the "official" instructions. These instructions supersede any other older instructions, videos, and wikis that came before Open Solo.
Release notes and instructions
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Release notes for Open Solo 3.0.0 and prior (located in older documentation repo):
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For stock solos and previously installed and working green cubes, go straight to the Open Solo installation procedures:
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For a brand new Green Cube installation please follow these updated instructions!
Support, Social Media, and other useful links
- Solo Beta Test group on Facebook (primary Open Solo and Green Cube support group!!)
- Solo Mod Club group on Facebook
- Solex Users group on Facebook
- Solex App official website. This app is truely the future of Solo's user interface!
- SidePilot Community on Facebook
- Jester's Drones for the Green Cube and other cool gear
- ProfiCNC for the Green Cube and other cool gear
- ArduPilot homepage
- ArduCopter Full Parameter List details all 700 something parameters in ArduCopter.
- ArduCopter introduction: Learn what you're getting yourself into :)
- Mission Planner ground station app for Windows
- Filezilla for moving files to/from the companion computer
- WinSCP for moving files to/from the companion computer
Tech and Contributors
If you're the geeky type that wants to read all the commits to see what has been changed in Open Solo, they can all be found in the Open Solo github repositories.
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The Build System compiles all the code from all the repositories into functioning binaries to be loaded onto the Solo and Controller. This was a HUGE lift to make work outside of 3DR's environment. David Buzz (@davidbuzz) was the brains behind the move of everything from 3DR, setup of new repos and servers, build system engineering, and a new AWS based auto-build system. The AWS system can compile from scratch in 1hr, whereas a home PC takes up to 5hrs.
- Meta-3DR is all the Yocto bitbake recipes.
- Solo-Builder is the virtual machine and scripts to carry out the build.
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The Flight Code has numerous components that got fixes and new features. Matt Lawrence (@Pedals2Paddles) worked most of these changes. Other contributors to the code were Tim (@FLYBYME), Morten Enholm (@Spawn32), and Hugh Eaves (@hugheaves),
- Sololink is mostly behind the scenes stuff related to booting, networking connections, firmware loading, etc. This compiles into a version for both the Copter and Controller's IMX companion computers.
- Shotmanager is all the smart shots, button and control handling, camera stuff, and most other user facing operational stuff. This compiles primarily into the Copter's IMX companion computer.
- Artoo is the controller's STM32 firmware for the screen, buttons, and sticks.
- Mavlink-Solo is a rather old fork of Mavlink. The flight modes were brought up to current enumerations.
- Sololink-python is some misc helper python files.
- ArduPilot-solo is 3DR's fork of ArduCopter used on the stock Solo pixhawk 2.0 cube.
For Developers
Not for general users that just want to put Open Solo releases on their solo!!!
Building Firmware
- Visit the Open Solo Vagrant VM readme for first time installation and initialization of the Vagrant VM.
- Visit solo-builder for steps to build the complete copter and controller firmware.
- Visit artoo for steps to build just the Artoo STM32 firmware
TO-DO
Add to readme information on ArduCopter compatibility and building
How to get involved
This documentation is pretty empty right now. If you know how Solo or Artoo works (or don't know!) and want to get involved pull requests are welcome on this documentation and all of the sub projects. (artoo, solo-builder etc) Most of the developers are hanging out on gitter and Facebook.
Special Mentions!
All of this would not be possible without 3DR. They very generously open sourced most of their internal code and build tools to make this possible. You can see the official 3DR release statement here and the ardupilot team's statement here.
Special thanks to Buzz and Peter for making this happen, and everyone else who has contributed to make solo even better.