@Rawdha-R @tom

SO, I used ffplay and was able to see the stream successfully. A quick google about vlc/rtsp brought up many issues in the community after some recent updates. I am not sure how I was able to do this before and cannot now, but I did find a fix for windows

https://www.reddit.com/r/reolink/comments/yzhlxp/found_a_solution_for_rtsp_blackno_video_in_vlc/#:~:text=In VLC%2C under the Tools,video stream in VLC player.

In case that link is ever deleted, I will paste the instructions here
"In VLC, under the Tools menu, go to Preferences (or Ctrl+p), open the Input/Codecs tab, and at the bottom in the Network area, the selection for "live555 stream transport" should be moved from "HTTP (default)" to "RTP over RTSP (TCP)". This worked, I can now view the video stream in VLC player."

This resolves the RTSP stream for windows. Those config options are not available in the linux version of VLC but I did see some config options you can build VLC with. I did not venture too far down that path

@soraminds im not sure there is any but we did what I believe you are describing in reverse. We set up a shell script on the drone that sent web requests to a server running on our network. This requests contained the GPS information from voxl-inspect-gps.

On our server, we set up a webserver using Perl and its HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI module. IIRC Perl was already on the drone so you might natively be able to do this in reverse, otherwise just install that package/module and look up some examples for it. That should get you there

Only catch might be the IP address changing. Depending on your network perhaps your webserver IP (running on drone) may not be static. You would have to account for that somehow. In our case, our server was static and this point was moot. Good luck!

@groupo traction?

@James-Strawson is this sensor on the sentinel as well?

I found a video on the forums from SDK 0.9 that shows how to change voxl-streamer from 720p to 4K. This video also showed changes to the bitrate and decimation. I am running SDK 1.3+ on a Sentinel and would like to similarly change resolutions. I see in the new SDK documentation that bitrate is ignored at least. Is changing the resolution the same procedure as described in the video? Will bitrate still be ignored if I adjust the resolution? Need I adjust the decimation?

@Zachary-Lowell-0 Are you talking about the USB-C used for ADB? (Maybe there is not the same on the Starling as there is on the Sentinel). Wouldn't that only apply if something was plugged in (i.e.) a cable for ADB

@Bernhard I also have had GPS related issues with my sentinel drone that happens to have a 5G modem. I have two drones and one does work so we havent chased the other one down much. I will be interested to hear what steps the team will have for you

thanks @Vinny !

I originally wanted to ask if ModalAI planned on making faster 5G drones. The Sentinel is a powerful drone but isnt as fast as needed for our project. I poked around and see the Starling 2 (max) has 5g modem support too - awesome! I'll have a few questions wrapped up in this post. I appreciate you guys getting to all of them,

Is the starling 2 modem the Sierra or the Quectel?

The documentation for the Starling 2 is much more sparse compared to the Sentinel, or perhaps I am missing it somewhere. I know some other drones were recently sunset. Is this any indication the starling is on that path as well? Does ModalAI plan to support the starling and sentinel for the forseeable future? Or is the sentinel a more stable platform moving forward?

Re the sentinel, I see the speeds as 10/15 m/s depending on the mode. What is "dash" mode? Also, what are the wind restrictions for the starling?

Thanks

@tom @Alex-Kushleyev ??

@Alex-Kushleyev or @tom

What steps would I need to take if I wanted to make those changes instead of waiting for an SDK update? I don’t necessarily need the behavior now that I have confirmed everything is working. But there are a few things for my very specific use case that could eliminate some hoops I have to jump through on my system. As Tom and I have discussed before, we’ve had to muddle our way through a few issues that weren’t part of your majority of use cases.

I assume this would involve building basically my own SDK (yours with very minor edits) then flashing it to the drone? Is that even possible?