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following your installation recommandation, I have the following message when trying to clone your repository

permission denied (publickey)
remote end hung up unexpectedly
I am not really familiar with GIT but I nether had this issue cloning any other repository. I am quite sure that it is probably my fault but I do not see what to do and do not see anything like that on your issue tracker
thank you for any help.

Hello,

I followed the installation instructions and am met with a completely grey screen upon opening localhost:3000. It doesn't look like the video-streaming plugin is working properly.

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. Has anyone encountered an issue like this before?

Thanks.

I installed ar-drone webflight with no errors until I ran the app.js

It displayed the following error:
Error: Ffmpeg was not found. Have you installed the ffmpeg package?

I then found the site: http://ffmpegmac.net
I have a MacBook Pro running with OS X Mountain Lion so I chose the right download link. I moved the ffmpeg(Unix Executable File) to different places within the ar-drone webflight folder but still no success. Can you point me in the right direction so I can display the video streaming of the AR-Drone 2.0 to the webpage? Thanks.

HTML5 Gamepad API:
http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/games/an-introduction-to-the-html5-gamepad-api/

For example use voxel-drone for simulation: http://shama.github.io/voxel-drone/

:D

Did anyone try the webflight with a parrot bebop drone?

I've tried playing back the .h264 files saved by the blackbox plugin, but I am unable to get them to play in VLC or QuickTime. How can they be played back? Do I need to install a certain codec to play them back?

In the current pilot plugin, as soon as a key is released, the drone stops. This is due to a limitation in the jquery keydown methods used. I would like to fix this to enable piloting with multiple keys at the same time.

Idea: search for some tutorials on JS gaming, since gameplays ideas for keyboard games in JS would apply here as well.

I wrote a functional Oculus controller based on pilot and a functional Oculus viewer based on mpeg stream. Can I add that here, and is there any way specifically you'd like me to do it?

This would enable different plugins to share the backend drone control API, and to add some conflict mitigation there (e.g. when receiving two conflicting commands from different input or browsers).

I'm trying to replace the key press commands in the pilot plugin to be OSC messages. I am inexperienced with node, but running into a lot of problems - i am receiving osc messages ok the app.js (or in the plugin directly) but what i think i have to do is to then pass commands from app.js into a custom plugin called "autopilot"
see here
https://github.com/markkleeb/nodecopter-osc/tree/master/plugins/autopilot

do you have any suggestions about going about this? cause i'm running into problems because i actually can't figure out how to get data from app.js to autopilot.js

Hey, I'm working on a plugin that allows you to give a location and then it flies to the location on it's own.
Should I add it to the build in plugins or as a separate one?

Hi Laurent, I'm a bit of a beginner with all this sort of stuff and was wondering if you were able to provide a basic guide to building custom plugins for use with WebFlight? I've enjoyed using the application but I'd like to experiment with plugins :)

Would you be able to provide a guide on the very basics of creating a plugin?

(Apologies, I posted this on the autonomy page by accident initially but closed it out!)

Not sure yet on how to do this, need to replace the client with a fake one sending data read from files.

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to add functions buttons to Webflight? I presented at the Wired 2014 London Conference, and through a combination of NodeCopter, Webflight and lots of help from Andrew we flew the drone remotely from 300 miles away. It went down a storm! I'm not sure how much information would be useful, so I've included as much as I can but please let me know if you need to know anything else.

Now being quadriplegic I obviously can't use a traditional keyboard, so to hold down a particular key on the keyboard I use a combination of the applications TrackerPro, Keystrokes and a Buddy Button. The Keystrokes application uses what they call Scan Panels, these are invisible until you hover over them at which point you have an on-screen keyboard that not only has a traditional keyboard but can also trigger scripts, blocks of text and key combinations amongst loads other things.

So, to control the drone for the presentation I had to create a special on-screen keyboard to simulate The keypresses that webflight requires. This is what the Scan Panel I created looks like:

So as you can see all of the things that Webflight can do has a button on this panel, when creating the panel I just linked each button you can see to an individual keypress; so when I select the Take Off button Keystrokes issues a single T keypress, enabling the drone to take off and that's the same for all the other buttons. For movement functions like Left, I simply hold down my Buddy Button whilst hovering over the Left button and then I let go just before I hit the cat!

But it occurred to me after the presentation that it might be possible to add function buttons on the webflight webpage, yes, it did take me that long to work out that we could use JavaScript and HTML to create buttons on a webpage! The only issue that I could foresee (I'm not a programmer) is that Keystrokes doesn't issue one single long keypress when I hold the button on a scan panel down, instead it issues a series of key presses very quickly. Whereas if you were able bodied you would hold down the Left key until the drone of moved far enough and then let go, or maybe I'm missing something?

Anyway, this would be AWESOME if this could be implemented! I'm furiously learning JavaScript at the moment, but that could take ages at my present speed. But I'm learning :-)

Thanks

Stuart

The documentation doesn't mention that ffmpeg is required, without which you get a pretty uninformative error message:

[jwiseman@ubuntu ardrone-webflight (master)]$ node app.js 
   info  - socket.io started
Loading video-png plugin.
Loading hud plugin.
Loading pilot plugin.
AR. Drone WebFlight is listening on port 3000

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

I would like to switch from a 'js' config file to something a bit more complete, with sections etc. Allowing to configure plugins (e.g. specify the keyboard layout for the pilot plugin).

I would like to make it much easier to deploy webflight from npm and additional plugins. The fact that you have to link/copy the plugin in a folder is cumbersome.

The idea:

• create a ~/.webflight (or /etc/webflight when installed with -g) on install.
• have in there a conf.d/ folder
• each plugin has its own configuration snippet (including its path) and a flag if enabled or not

Thus, when user install an additional plugin via npm, it could add its default config in .webflight/conf.d/ and be immediately available to the user

Could you help me?

Error message:

node app.js
info - socket.io started
Loading video-png plugin.
Loading hud plugin.
Loading battery plugin.
Loading pilot plugin.
Loading blackbox plugin.
warn - error raised: Error: listen EADDRINUSE
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...
TcpVideoStream error: TcpVideoStream timeout after 4000 ms.
Attempting to reconnect to TcpVideoStream...

I've successfully installed all files, and can run them, pointing the browser to localhost:3000 renders the Webflight page. However, there is no video feed coming from the drone. I've tried using the video-png and the video-stream configs, as well as chrome and safari on my macbook. I've also installed ffmpeg using homebrew.

No errors are thrown in command, either. I have yet to to check my browser's console log, but I'll do that tonight and update the issue (also adding screenshots).

Have any of you encountered this problem ever, and have you found a resolution for it?

All the settings we can configure from the mobile app: max altitude, speed, etc...

hello! I have install WebFlight successfully .Point your browser to http://localhost:3000/ , and I Can control my AR.Drone 2.0. But the picture is static, doesn't change with the situation.

The artificial horizon doesn't accurately track the real horizon.

I think pixelsPerDegree needs to be scaled differently, e.g. pixelsPerDegree = height / cameraFovY, where I think cameraFovY = 70 degrees.

Hello, i have been trying to run this on the browser once connected to the ar drone, on the command line it shows that its connected and stuff, but on the browser its blank and empty. I tried changing the config file as well, but nothing happens. Kindly help. Thank you.

Template Literal is fastest, smallest and simplest template engine, because it use JS's literal template feature.

It's 55 times faster than EJS, and it also use less CPU and RAM ressources, so it may be a good idea to use it instead of EJS 😀

Not easy, since dronestream requires the raw video and blackbox uses the parsed PaVE frames in order to maintain synch. Marking it as wontfix for now.

With a fresh checkout I get this error:

[jwiseman@ubuntu ardrone-webflight (master)]$ node app.js 

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'ws'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jwiseman/src/ardrone-webflight/app.js:6:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)

As a student project, we developped a framework to capture drones in flight. We use ardrone-webflight to control a Parrot AR 2.0 once captured.

It seems that when ardrone-webflight connects to the drone, it starts with a Landing order. I guess this is a kind of security, however in our case it is not a good idea because we do not want the drone to land when flying.

Some option could be added to disable this behaviour in config file.

More information on this project:

• Git repository (In french)
• English overview

If you use the replay plugin and you're also connected to a real drone, you'll end up with two conflicting sources of navdata events running in parallel:

The observed effect of this is the HUD and any other user interface (or autonomous navigation) based on navdata will jump between two vehicle states.

This looks like a very useful app, but after spending an entire day trying to get it to work, it's still just an illusion to me. I'm using windows 7 and I downloaded everything that it says to download, installed everything I was supposed to, and had it all working - everything except actual video on the screen of my laptop or the ability to control the drone. The java app.js said it was running and was responding to the browser requests. The web page had the right header on it when I went to localhost:3000, but the screen was blank. The browser said that there was a lot of stuff it couldn't find - but mostly query.js - even though there 5 or 6 copies of it now sprinkled throughout the directories of the ardrone-webflight-master directory. I couldn't figure out which one(s) it needed to see, or how to make it visible to the browser. This was a lot of drilling for a dry hole. I just thought I'd write this comment in case some other poor slob is stuck in the same spot and is wondering why it wasn't as easy as the readme file made it sound. It looks like nothing has been done on Github for a few months now, so perhaps I'm beating a dead horse, but if anyone has an idea of what I can't figure out that everyone else seems to have figured out long ago, please give me clue, OK? Thanks!

Out of the blue, the dronestream based video stream started failing on me. I suspect a silent update of chrome. Anyway, I fixed the problem (see mbebenita/Broadway#20) and published a new version of dronestream on npm. I also updated our package.json to include the new dronestream version 1.1.1.

This is just a reminder that we should publish a new release of ardrone-webflight so other users don't run into this.

The pilot plugin depends on two buttons hardcoded in the view, which is unfortunate since these buttons will always be visible even when the plugin is disabled.

Overall, we should rethink how these various plugin button are managed.

Cause bower already upgrades to 0.10 and made some change, so the components will be installed to bower_components under root path, so jquery path would be wrong.

Maybe a add a .bowerrc like this:

{
  "directory": "public/components"
}

to make sure install path is what you want.

PS: Actually it's make such a big deal out of it if only use jquery, unless you might add more assets and want to manage them using bower. ;p

Instead of scheduling video push at fixed rate, we should use the timestamp value from the PaVE headers. This should help in better synching with navdata.

Start/pause/stop recording from the browser, get some feedback that it is recording, duration, etc..

My whole try: (I'm on a MBP (Mavericks))

Marvins-MacBook-Pro:ardrone-webflight marvinosswald$ bower install
bower not-cached    git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#~1.9.1
bower resolve       git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#~1.9.1
bower not-cached    git://github.com/bowerjs/bootstrap.git#~2.1.1
bower resolve       git://github.com/bowerjs/bootstrap.git#~2.1.1
bower ECMDERR       Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git", exit code of #128

Additional error details:
fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
github.com[0: 192.30.252.130]: errno=Operation timed out

Looking at the SDK, it seems a wind_speed structure can be retrieved with both a speed and estimated angle. So, in theory, we could display a wind speed/strength arrow on the hud.

It would be great to add better support for mobile browsers, including touch-based virtual joysticks. The Gamasutra article "A Guide To iOS Twin Stick Shooter Usability" has a good discussion of various implementation tradeoffs and design issues for touch-based virtual joysticks.

This is a minor nit: The compass has a discontinuity, so if you rotate the drone smoothly through 360 degrees, the compass will jump at some point (I think it's going from 180 degrees to -180 degrees).

From a fresh checkout, npm install, bower install, then enabling the video-stream plugin:

[jwiseman@ubuntu ardrone-webflight (master)]$ node app.js 
   info  - socket.io started
Loading video-stream plugin.

/home/jwiseman/src/ardrone-webflight/plugins/video-stream/index.js:2
   require("dronestream").listen(3001, {tcpVideoStream: deps.client.getVideoSt
                                                                    ^
TypeError: Object #<Client> has no method 'getVideoStream'
    at video (/home/jwiseman/src/ardrone-webflight/plugins/video-stream/index.js:2:70)
    at /home/jwiseman/src/ardrone-webflight/app.js:89:36
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jwiseman/src/ardrone-webflight/app.js:85:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)

Hello, need some help regarding installing FFMPEG.

I have already installed FFMPEG (node js) on my MacBook and the file has appeared in my node_modules. However, when I launch the app.js script, I keep getting a message asking me if I have installed FFMPEG.

Can someone please help? I'm really new with this. Thank you!

If I resize the browser window, the HUD compass does not rescale, so the needle is no longer centered.