rospilot

1. Install the dependencies: rosdep install rospilot
2. Compile: catkin_make
3. Configure PostGIS, mapping server, and other services: rosrun rospilot first_time_setup.sh
4. Start rospilot: roslaunch rospilot rospilot.launch
5. The UI will now be running at http://localhost:8085

I am providing code in this repository to you under an open source license. Because this is my personal repository, the license you receive to my code is from me and not from my employer (Facebook).

Running linter

catkin_make roslint_rospilot

Running tests

catkin_make test

Changelog for package rospilot

1.6.1 (2021-02-21)

• Fix systemd service to use noetic
• Remove map server Tilestache is no longer supported on modern Ubuntu
• Remove firmware directory
• Switch to Github Actions for CI
• Remove calls to deprecated ffmpeg functions
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.6.0 (2020-09-06)

• Add support for Noetic
• Update to Python3
• Upgrade jquery to fix CVE
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.5.6 (2019-03-30)

• Avoid thread exhaustion in h264 server Previously, connections didn't timeout, so a badly behaved client could exhaust all the threads on the host
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.5.5 (2019-03-29)

• Fix web_ui.py serving of nodejs dependencies
• Upgrade Bootstrap to fix CVEs
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.5.4 (2019-02-17)

• Update vendored NPM deps
• Remove hard npm dependency npm deps must now be vendored
• Remove Highcharts and accelerometer graph page
• Added missing wget dependency to package.xml that was found in first_time_setup.sh.
• Improve cold start H264 streaming to new clients
• Refactor H264 streaming to allow Android app support
• Contributors: Anders Fischer, Christopher Berner

1.5.3 (2018-10-08)

• Fix dnsmasq dependency on wlan device
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.5.2 (2018-09-22)

• Fix compiler warnings
• Fix SPS & PPS ordering when using MFC encoder SPS should always be before PPS, as PPS references the SPS packet
• Remove unnecessary C++11 compiler flag
• Fix undefined behavior in AVPacket buffer management Use the provided av_new_packet() and av_packet_unref() functions instead of manual management of .data field
• Fix undefined behavior in memory deallocation This buffer is an array, and therefore must be deallocated with delete[]
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.5.1 (2018-09-03)

• Fix wlan configuration on Bionic
• Fix Systemd service to work on Melodic
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.5.0 (2018-08-04)

• Upgrade to Angular 5.2.11
• Upgrade Highcharts
• Set both pts and dts in video recorder
• Properly set time_base on video recorder codec
• Remove usage of deprecated encoding/decoding functions
• Remove usage of deprecated AVPicture
• Fix AVStream::codec deprecation warnings
• Add error handling for call to avformat_write_header()
• Cleanup VideoRecorder::stop()
• Switch Travis to build melodic
• Update ffmpeg usage to compile against newest version
• Update environment variable to PGPASSWORD
• Switch to Melodic-friendly dependencies
• Hack: monkey patch Mapnik to fix Tilestache dependency
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.4.1 (2018-03-10)

• Switch to HTTPS for openstreetmap.org
• Workaround camera drivers that don't set keyframe flag
• Add support for reading raw YUV from camera
• Refactor pixel format handling
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.4.0 (2017-11-19)

• Add "follow me" mode
• Add support for direct h264 capture from camera
• Improve automatic camera selection
• Add vibration data to display Also includes accelerometer clipping counts
• Add support for battery voltage monitoring
• Enable pre-release tests
• Add Travis integration
• Refactor handling of NPM dependencies
• Add native Systemd service
• Set dns search domain for better compatibility
• Update wifi setup script with proper dnsmasq dependency
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.8 (2017-09-13)

• Remove dependency on nodejs-legacy Also remove usage of vendored npm version
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.7 (2017-06-10)

• Update for newest NPM
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.6 (2017-05-29)

• Add support for Pixhawk2.1
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.5 (2017-03-12)

• Add missing include needed on Debian
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.4 (2017-03-08)

• Rescale PTS properly
• Fix usage of deprecated API
• Fix usage of invalid iterator
• Add more logging to camera node
• Fix data structure corruption due to race
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.3 (2016-08-24)

• Fix build on Debian
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.2 (2016-08-24)

• Support building on Debian
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.1 (2016-08-21)

• Fix build on Wily
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.3.0 (2016-08-20)

• Initialize source frame data structure
• Update init script to Kinetic
• Set CherryPy to production instead of manually configuring it
• Use npm for build
• Use more canonical license string
• Fix scoping in set waypoint callback
• Improve mavlink wait logic to be interruptable
• Fix retry logic for serial mavlink
• Migrate to Angular 2.0
• Add timeout to waypoint fetching Previously, if a message was lost waypoints would no longer be fetched and new ones could not be set
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.2.0 (2016-05-14)

• Add people detector using OpenCV
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.1.1 (2016-01-31)

• Copy files to /etc as part of setup script instead of package install
• Fix warnings and installation of mapnik files
• Add missing python-serial dependency
• Cleanup linking of libturbojpeg This should fix compiling on other platforms like x86_32
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.1.0 (2016-01-18)

• Auto-detect camera device path
• Improve video streaming FPS ~2x
• Add support for hardware h264 acceleration on Odroid XU4
• Add FPS counter to camera page
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.0.3 (2015-08-23)

• Fix race freeing background image sink resources
• Fix bad free on older versions of libav
• Improve formatting of first_time_setup.sh output
• Update readme
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.0.2 (2015-08-12)

• Remove unnecessary imports
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.0.1 (2015-08-09)

• Fix compilation error on vivid and utopic
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

1.0.0 (2015-08-08)

• Switch to H264 codec for streaming and recording
• Fix a variety of minor bugs
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.2.5 (2015-05-31)

• Tune MFC encoder parameters
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.2.4 (2015-05-29)

• Fix hardware encoder
• Fix detection of MFC
• Update service script for jade
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.2.3 (2015-05-02)

• Fix deprecation warnings
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.2.2 (2015-04-30)

• Change CodecID to AVCodecID
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.2.1 (2015-04-29)

• Switch to libnl 3.0
• Update to new libavconv constants
• Improve error handling in setup script
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.2.0 (2015-04-22)

Main features:

• Added map server to replace Google Maps
• Added support for recording in h264 with hardware acceleration
• Added support for Odroid Show

Details:

• Fix restart command in init.d script
• Move services and params out of global namespace
• Fix loading of video device selector
• Add hostapd setup to first_time_setup script
• Add setting in UI page to change codec
• Fix packaging of camera_node
• Optimize memory access when using MFC encoder
• Fix mjpeg recording
• Remove usage of tempnam, and cleanup some other code
• Fix usage of avcodec_encode_video2
• Replace usage of deprecated function
• Split camera node source code into cpp files
• Add (experimental) support for Exynos MFC
• Fix h264 encoding
• Improve media path expansion
• Fix bug in auto resolution detection
• Add auto-adjustment of height and width
• Wait for device to connect before writing to Odroid Show
• More code cleanup
• Code cleanup
• Fix debian package build
• Add support for recording with mjpeg codec
• Remove old vlc recorder node
• Add recording in h264 support to camera node
• Add support for usb cameras to camera node
• Refactor ptp node
• Media improvements Fix container format of recorded videos Add button to delete media
• Add support for Odroid Show
• Add thumbnails for videos
• Set queue_size in mavlink node
• Add flight mode to BasicStatus message and web ui
• Fix race condition in settings page
• Add carto style to osm2pgsql command
• Add auto detection of APM and baudrate
• Implement local mapnik server Also remove our dependency on Google Maps, so that we can run the map even when there's no internet connection
• Rename variable to avoid shadowing
• Fix image capture from webcam
• Fix lint errors
• Improve internet connection detection logic
• Don't try to load google maps if there's no internet connection
• Reduce chart update rate to 2Hz to improve performance
• Add source maps for Angular and jQuery
• Add button to shutdown on-board computer
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.1.1 (2014-08-27)

• Fix debian package build
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.1.0 (2014-08-26)

• Add PTP support
• Add init.d script to auto start rospilot
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.0.4 (2014-07-05)

• Use more standard compliant glob syntax
• Make .gitignore less aggressive
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.0.3 (2014-06-28)

• Change web_ui to use pkg_resources for static assets
• Add udev rule to installation targets
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.0.2 (2014-06-15)

• Remove pymavlink dependency
• Switch to a library for the HMC5883 communication
• Add more documentation
• Add support for MPU6050 to firmware
• Contributors: Christopher Berner

0.0.1 (2014-06-02)

• Initial release of rospilot
• Contributors: Christopher Berner, bordicon, cberner