MIssion Planner Secrets and Hidden Features

[@martinkeilloh1580]

Thank you Lee and very big thank you to Ben,O my head ive had so much fun and enjoyment from Ardupilot and so much more to come,and those that are watching this 3DXR are one of the bestest suppliers you can deal with

[@aniketakabir1572]

Very informative video! Been using mission planner and ardupilot for about 6 months now, its really just amazing. Your videos have been very helpful for setting them up. Thank you and Happy flying!

[@dempa3]

Great video! Very informative. The scope of tools that are available with Ardupilot and Mission Planner are incredible!

[@swapshots4427]

And daunting!

[@mobius-1965]

A big thank you to that gentleman for taking his time to show us that stuff,is there anyone else on youtube doing this kind of stuff because I have the basics but I don't think my parameters are even close because of downloading issues ect. I know there is the wiki stuff but I just don't understand what its talking about allot of the time because of my newness to the hobby,but this video upped my confidence in mission planner by a factor of 10 thanks again...

[@Painless360]

See my build series... Check my playlists in the description..

[@stanordave]

How did I miss this? What a great video and very helpful. Thanks!

[@tomleonard1533]

Another enormously informative video. Thank you Lee and thank you Ben. Just brilliant.

[@armadynepan9571]

Wow! That's amazing! I never thought we can achieve this much function through MP. Thanks, this is really helpful!

[@StefanHristozov]

Splendid! This should be a 3 days course.

[@danieladelodun9547]

All this stuff is so cool! I found your channel a few months ago - ordered my very first 'aircraft' a few days ago (EMAX Tinyhawk RTF). That said, I am 110% sure you are on a government watchlist...

[@NATGEOANDSTUFFPaulbrannan]

very intuative as allways Lee.keep up the good work my friend.

[@RcBuddy]

WOW, nice features, sure gone check things out. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.

[@arruntus]

Thank you very much, very instructive. How to plan missions can be done in an exclusive series showing what to take into account when situations arise, say, rare. Seeing how a person who controls MP well, solves problems, helps a lot. It is an idea 🙄😁 Thank you very much, as always, your videos and contributions are worth their weight in gold 😀

[@Painless360]

This will be covered an a planned extension to a new PixHawk 2020 Build series. What 'situations' are you interested in?

[@arruntus]

@@Painless360 Thank you for responding. The most basic missions I think we all know how to do although it wouldn't be bad to go over them, because just like in this video, there are always things you miss or forget. Then there are more complex missions such as joining several zones or polygons, KML's, different types of missions and joining them, multiple battery flights, complex geo-fences, multiple POIs, ROI's, autonomous takeoffs and landings with fixed wings or VTOLS, the different parameters of the missions especially those that are used very little, jumps in the missions (I do not know if you can make conditional jumps ), terrain tracking, flying an interrupted mission for any reason from a halfway point or a mission resume, etc, Getting more and more complicated. eeeeeeeeeee I'm sorry, and I'm sure I left a lot of stuff along the way. All focused on being eminently practical. After a lot of searching, the documentation is very basic, you find yourself in situations that are really hard to solve and probably not in the most optimal way or you just don't know how to solve it and knowing how powerful is Mission Planner and Ardupilot, it is difficult to accept a defeat. Many times you get very important information and advice from the video answers, or from seeing how someone else solves the same problems differently. It makes you grow and have a much more advanced knowledge that otherwise is very difficult to get. You want to do a complex mission, that's the challenge, you cut it into smaller parts, solve the parts and get it done is often difficult and force to do more than one mission, when having the concepts clear, although it takes work, you can optimize a lot and most importantly, being methodical and knowing well the tools you have, try to reduce to 0 all the failures that can cost you lose the aircraft or simply fail to do the mission. There is really not much information available for what I am commenting, this video is a clear example of everything we are missing. Besides, I'm sure more than one of the guys who watch these videos will raise questions about missions that they haven't been able to solve or aren't sure if they've done it in the best possible way. I'm sorry, I'm sure I'm asking or suggesting too much, but I'm sure many of us would be delighted with something similar even if it's much less than what I've mentioned. As little as it is, grateful for your great work, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[@Painless360]

Not at all, great suggestions and if anyone knows - the boys at 3DXR probably do! Please see the existing Misson planning tips video in the Big Boys Toys playlist..

[@darrellburkey1604]

I've been using Mission Planner for years but I learned a lot from this video. Thanks! By the way, the author is Oborne not Osborne. He's a super nice guy.

[@stelioskampouris7727]

Can you right down what did you press for the propagation settings on 12:45 min. Thank you

[@wingsmh27]

Ohhh.... Its certainly helpful. To avoid Mountain. Before it seen we need to change altitude to avoid hill and mountains Thanks for all this

[@venturarealestate9918]

Thanks for keeping me in the know! 👍🏽💯

[@flighttherapybullisticfpv133]

The best hidden feature in this video is that scarf m8... absolutely tops haha

[@HEMANTHK92]

Thanks a Lot! This Solved Most of Doubts.

[@jostak3577]

Wow, this is great, very informative. I am switching back to ArduPlane since it has started to support the cheap full featured boards like marek f405. The maturity of the features over the Inav is overwhelming. Thank you for this and looking forward for more. Regards

[@JR-kk6ce]

What? One year of brain food in a 25 minute video, marvelous!

[@chidi21]

Fantastic! Love your videos!

[@HallOdisea]

Excellent info .Thanks you very much.

[@jjssbailey]

Well done!

[@stevietee10]

Wow, bloody clever stuf !! never knew you could do that much with MP, sorry Pawel it looks like my iNav days are over :-)

[@Maxspert]

Thank you for all this hidden features,I have a quiestion,there is any way to setup the mission planes when you flying to use multiples screens-2-3-4 etc,to show on each one different parametres,seting and so on?

[@Painless360]

Yes you can, you can 'detatch' the screens to move them about..

[@ohare100]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@basics5823]

During the mission it is indicated as bad AHRS. What does it mean ?

[@franciscourena5636]

great presentation **** What if I am in an area in the there is not internet available, can I set up a waypoint mission for my UAV and transfer it to the Pixhawk with a USB cable in order for the UAV to carry the mission flight?????

[@Painless360]

Yep. See my video on miss planning.. Happy flying

[@one44east77]

Thank you for a great video. This has been informative and interesting.

[@willay747]

That was awesome! I will check into arduplane.

[@shaibaldas9434]

I am using mission planner to connect an autonomous ground video but I am seeing any hdop and sats value in my mission planner homescreen. What parameter should I need to set to solve the issue?

[@Painless360]

That should be covered in the manual - ardupilot.org/planner/docs/mission-planner-flight-data.html - HDOP can be shown on the screen. I'm not near a PC to try at the moment so let me know if you can't get it working..

[@paulmakesthings]

Wish I could like this video more then once!

[@MaxDrougge]

I am wondering how I get the speed and altitude overlayed above the drone/plane on the map?

[@Painless360]

At what time in the video?

[@MaxDrougge]

@@Painless360 At 20:56 where the plane is moving, it indicates (I think) altitude, speed and ID. I would love to have this information overlayed on copter too.

[@benjaminmathon7417]

Awesome, thanks ;) I really like the propagation tool, I just don't get why we don't get documentation on it. Also another useful stuff is crtl + F - 3D map, it can simulate some kind of FPV view, with hill and mountain in 3D

[@vighneshnkp6866]

Hey does that work well for you? I've been trying to use that for the last couple of days but the imagery just doesn't load. All I see are waypoints in 3D. If you've faced this before can you tell me how you solved it?

[@JacobBaron]

Great video. Saving for reference!

[@garrettmorris7948]

Can you make a video on setting up mission planner to control a quadplane/drone live in guided mode from a laptop running mission planner? How do the commands and telemetry go to andfrom the uav back to the laptop? Can i use my rm pocket (edgetx) as the tx/rx device between missionplanner and the uav?

[@Painless360]

Check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5Swgmaif8hjrZI I hope it helps...

[@pieterpretorius1014]

i stuck a pixhawk into a small hobbyking cessna 182 model. it hasn't flown yet but will soon. using a flysky radio for manual control

[@ais_robotic]

Assalamu alaikum vai, can you help me please ?? I am using Apm2.8. my problem is when I rool posative by hand monitor shwing nagative diraction! I finding result and tired..... no result found youtube and other site... please try to say what can I do vai.

[@Painless360]

If you mean that the motor is spinning in the wrong direction simply swap any two of the three wires going from the ESC to the motor. See my ESC basics video..

[@babakzekibi315]

Can I use Mission planer for spraying purposes?

[@Painless360]

Many do but lots of places require a licence to spray from a UAV..

[@jeremiahamodu5645]

I need help my multirotor doesn't follow the waypoint how do I get that fixed pls

[@Painless360]

Check out my video on how to create a mission. Sounds like you are missing something... Best of luck

[@codebender9435]

The RF Map is really nice. Before I was doing my own kml files by drawing a cone on the map to check the radio antennas are in line of sight. This is a lot better. It shows up when you start flying or run the sim. I set convergance to 15, range 6.5km(my dji hd fpv max range), base 2m as I run from almost sea height. Really nice. A lot easier than doing it manually.

[@dgb5820]

I’m looking at this video and thinking how powerful this software is. May I say it will take many hours to learn the many features and parameters of this application so please make more rover videos with the ublox zen-f9p module

[@abhishekmeena832]

Can we see the elevation graph without connecting to drone, if can how, because plan mission in advance

[@Painless360]

You can pre-fetch maps but I've not found a way to use Mission Planner without a flight controller. If you do find a way, please let me know.

[@nikouer]

what I don't understand is why the mission planner needs to upload terrain in the Pixhawk to use the function terrain follow. Wouldnt be simpler just adding intermediate waypoints and give the user the option to modify them in a profile graf?

[@profsacin]

Is it possible to setup waypoints for a fixed wing mission where you can make a plane fly inverted? How about fly at 45 degree or vertical upline or downline? I am looking for a tool, to make a 3D plane do basic acrobatics. I am starting by figuring out what Arudpilot can do including extensibility through code. I am a programmer, but in other areas. Also looking into basic Arduino gyro code. But I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I wonder where I could find a project, if there is one, to "plan acrobatic fixed wing missions".

[@Painless360]

Arduplane wasn't really created with Acro in mind. Let me k ow if you figure it out.. Best of luck

[@TheRcbthree]

sweet! great vid

[@ehbgoat]

What is the write and write fast difference?

[@Painless360]

Write fast does what it says on the win but the normal 'write' button works every time in those cases where 'fast' causes issues.

[@kawasakizx14jomamamoto57]

I wanted ask if you have ever had mission planner freezing up on windows computers. When first installed on my windows laptop it worked about 15 times then would continuously freeze up when loading. It won't freeze up using a tablet, which I believe is Linux based.

[@Painless360]

I've had odd things happen but I usually de-install and re-install as step one. Best of luck!

[@kawasakizx14jomamamoto57]

@@Painless360 thank you sir.

[@geoffreygearheart1259]

Hi all, I'm trying to map a series of almost vertical cliffs in a remote area for which there is only Google Earth imagery. I am looking for a DJI-compatible flight planning app which would allow me to set a survey grid that's tilted in space, with the drone's camera pointing at a set angle towards the cliff face. The same idea as vertical grid flying, which is good for buildings (e.g. Drone Deploy), but tilted at, e.g. 75 degrees. "Terrain following" is not really an option given the absence of reliable elevation data, the steepness and the small spatial scales I'm dealing with. Any insight is very much appreciated!

[@Painless360]

I've not tried anything close to that. Anyone else got any ideas?

[@lankantravelboy315]

thanks bro.god bless you

[@travelrideandfly8355]

Hi! Is there any way to make this compatible with iNav ?

[@Painless360]

Not that I am aware of... Happy flying

[@AndrewHyams]

the map RF bit is interesting... does it just do line of sight to the terrain, or does it take into account other things like altitude, fresnel zones and power/sensitivity?

[@Painless360]

I don't think it's that clever. I wouldn't trust it over a good 'ol range test with the radio..

[@AndrewHyams]

@@Painless360 no but would be interesting

[@alirezaghaderi]

Great video. Please do a tutorial on HIL simulation on x-plane for a VTOL

[@IronDome79]

Good video, new feature I have learnt and craved for years, is the terrain data . Excellent feature! The version version though has "Face Map" any idea what that is, I cant find anything in the help. Also after creating polygon, there are + signs in black on segments between each polygon corners, what are these things??

[@Painless360]

More mission planner tips videos on the new features planned. Stay tuned!

[@Skye_Technologies]

Can you fly multiple drones at the same time with mission planner ???

[@Painless360]

I've never tried. There is swarms technology in Ardupilot so I would see if that could be part of it. Best of luck

[@alexanderzagornikov647]

Great video!Thanks

[@jeremiahamodu5645]

What if a multirotor is not connected can the simulation work

[@Painless360]

No idea, I don't use it. Best of luck

[@copyandpastification]

Anybody knows if there is a way to do Telemetry radio with Matek F405 wings

[@Painless360]

Yep, see my series on it.. yappu telemetry script is great.. best of luck

[@birendrakumar-gl5gq]

Really helpful..🖤

[@theperson12345678920]

Great video, really cool to see the innards of ardupilot, how possible is it to get ardupilot on a micro/nano quad, like 2.5 and 3 inchers? Or is INav the way to go with the whoop style boards, I do have an f411 in a diatone gtb 339, could that run ardupilot?

[@Painless360]

It depends what you are looking to do. Ardupilot supports lots of non PixHawk hardware now - see my Arduplane builds for an example of how to check and what it does over something like iNav..

[@theperson12345678920]

@@Painless360 To be honest, watching him play around with mission planner was too much fun, and would be the main reason I like Ardupilot, also super interested in telemetry data back to a laptop to monitor. (I could just fly a mavic then really though) I might start with my Nazgul 5 with INAV as its similar to betaflight and is actually supported. Not sure I would get a GPS going for simple betaflight rtl-ish...

[@FranklinNewhart]

We desperately need some videos on installing and setting up remote ID modules for our home built drones. As well as some links to accessability of Remote ID modules

[@Painless360]

What do you mean by 'remote ID'?

[@siddharth4662]

somehow that secret to select the aircraft/vehicle is not showing up in my latest Mission Planner... 😞

[@Painless360]

This is why I date my videos. Things change, and a video from three years ago will often refer to things that have subsequently been changed. Happy flying

[@TheAdkFlyer10]

Lee, I was wondering if you might be able to do a “quick tip” video explaining the differences (if any) between Auto Takeoff as a “mission” vs. as a “Flight Mode” on a switch. The wiki isn’t very clear if there are differences in the params of each. Thank you!

[@patchitagain7373]

Hello, I have a few questions for the hive mind :) 1) Does the plane (Mini Talon) need to be connected to MP before going into Sim mode, so it can read the configs or can I just load the param and waypoint files into the sim? 2) When setting up a totally 26 mile autonomous flight over rolling hills, with terrain following enabled and sometimes out of reach of my Dragonlink and MavLink, how can you pre-load all the waypoints and terrain data, so it doesn't crash into the side of a hill or mountain? I did download all the tiles for the mission, but it doesn't seem that data is sent to the Pix prior to takeoff. 3) Also, how can I simulate this in MP? After watching Painless's video and then fooling with it all day, I haven't been able to figure out how to actually start the mission. I use the takeoff command and waypoints thereafter, but what initiates the sim flight after placing it into auto mode? 4) Another nagging question, when going into Sim mode, I get a Bad Gyro Health message, which doesn't go away, which in turn causes an error condition when arming the sim.. How can that be remedied ? and 5) What SD card is recommended? I have an extra 32G SD card, but will the pix recognize one that large? All assistance would be much appreciated.. Many thanks in advance, your vids are always top notch.. :)

[@Painless360]

These are great questions for a follow up video... Stay tuned... Happy flying!

[@-hi7]

thank you!!

[@Xreyk]

I have followed everything on the video but arming the mission fails. What could be wrong.

[@Painless360]

Find the exact error message to get a clue. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5faZYN7oJZ9psk

[@rajvanshsinghbhuee]

This was great

[@ridingdirty2412]

I need a drink and a lay down after watching this.

[@Painless360]

See the more basic version in the Pixhawk 2020 series ;)

[@jwijaya98]

Hi Lee, once again thanks for your great videos! Now I'm really looking forward to build my first wing using chibios boards! If i may ask a question, which one would you recommend for a build? The f405 wing or the new f765 wing? Im thinking of adding more and more features in the future and currently going to run yaapu telemetry on my t16 through rx4r receiver. I'm a bit discouraged to do the hack or create the telemetry converter as the readymade converter cable is not available anywhere in my country. And in this situation i hope i dont have to order one from another country. I'd like to hear your view on this, as this is my first build and im going to start simple and trying to avoid unnecessary difficulties. Again, many thanks and i hope you and your family stay safe during this times

[@Painless360]

The F405 wing is one I use a lot here. Both are great options...

[@Wayno_Complaino]

THANK YOU, please do more MP tutorials.

[@HighlanderJC]

nice video

[@sams9716]

I wish I could get a Arduplane build setup going. I find it so much more complex and harder to set up than iNav. Between my C1 and Nano Talon I must have flashed it 7 or 8 times and gave up and went back to iNav.

[@Painless360]

Just follow along with one of my Arduplane builds... links in description...

[@sams9716]

@@Painless360 I have tried to follow along. They are great videos and help. Between all the codes and fighting with the ESC calibration it gets frustrating. At this point however, if the battery voltage readings work better in that than iNav its tempting to give it another go. Have been struggling with that for about a week now and still can't get the correct readings.

[@sams9716]

@@FPVREVIEWS I have only used Matek boards. The ones I have used with Arduplane have been the F405 boards. I haven't tried a Pixhawk mostly because of my struggles with Arduplane and Matek is more affordable.

[@kadewallis7663]

Its worth the extra work to get arduplane working. Arduplane will fly a poorly tuned plane, Inav will crash it.

[@Painless360]

My experiences with Arduplane last year have all been excellent and exceeded my expectations. It's just different from other systems so you need to learn the new setup process. It's all covered in detail in the wikli and my builds from last year show every step and how easy it is to set it up now. Arduplane is so complete, a nice example of how slick Arduplane can be is that it can automatically set the servo midpoints for level flight automatically as it flies in a stabilise mode so you don't need to trim when you want to fly in manual mode. Clever eh?

[@marktadlock5428]

I have been wanting to build a river, but no one seems to do much with making rovers using mission planner

[@Painless360]

See my ArduBoat build - the steps are the same.. Best of luck.

[@marccretten]

We need more like this, i believe we only scratching the surface of MP

[@minibok2008]

Great, fantasic feature, but! I can´t arm my planed path in simulator. Prearm, mode not armable , I tried every mode possible. It wont start the mission. Allways this message Mode not armable.

[@minibok2008]

Copter version

[@sparrow082]

🤯

[@sickvic3909]

Sounds like a goose in the room/ MP fanboy/ was, don't fly anymore

[@swapshots4427]

I'm 65. Just got my first Arduino kit. Crashed my Blade 350qx several years ago on flight 3 and that was it. Now I want to give it a good old retirement Go. Thanks so much for the amazing tutorials from the few guys I've chosen to be my mentors. Any blog recommendations would be appreciated. or [e-mail]

[@Painless360]

I am not a fan of the blogs as too many of them are full of trolls and armchair experts who can confuse new builders and pilots. Best of luck with your new engagement with the hobby and best wishes for your retirement!

[@swapshots4427]

@@Painless360 Thankyou. I am actually relieved you feel that way. All this social computer stuff is too much too. It is almost midnight and I am on your third or fourth vid of the evening. That ArduPlanner vid makes me wish I started this when it first intrigued me years ago. My how to build a drone BOOK is here on Tuesday,

[@Painless360]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/roGnlGmoa9OFirc may be a good series too :D