AR.Drone 2 navdata and control over MQTT.

Standalone Spring Boot service that publishes and subscribes MQTT topics from/to an AR.Drone 2.0. This can be used wigether with MQTT dashboard to display in-flight data from the drone as well as control the drone over MQTT.

Used technology

• Spring Boot, http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/
• Eclipse Paho MQTT, https://eclipse.org/paho/clients/java/

Project created with http://start.spring.io/

Build and install

git clone

Configuration

The MQTT bridge service is configured in src/main/resources/application.properties

Drone settings are typically the same, but MQTT behavior should be adjusted to fit your needs. Here is a sample configuration:

# These are typically not changed
drone.ip=192.168.1.1
drone.cmdPort=5556
drone.navPort=5554

# MQTT pub/sub configuration
drone.mqttUrl=tcp://localhost:1883
drone.mqttId=vaadindrone
drone.mqttPub=vaadindrone/NAVDATA
drone.mqttSub=vaadindrone/CMD/#
drone.jsonMode=true

Note: 'drone.jsonMode' configures how navdata is published over MQTT. If this is 'true' all data is published as single JSON object message with topic specified by 'drone.mqttPub'. If set to 'false', data is published in their own topics under the topic 'drone.mqttPub'. For example battery level would be a value 'vaadindrone/NAVDATA/BATTERY'.

License

Apache 2.0 License, https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html