Rpanion-Server is an Open Source software package for a companion computer (such as the Raspberry Pi) that provides a web-based interface for configuring the network, telemetry (MAVLink) routing and logging from a connected flight controller.
Rpanion-Server can be run on any Linux-based operating system with node.js installed.
It includes:
Rpanion-server can be installed either via a disk image or from source.
Disk images are an easy way to get started with Rpanion-server. Simply download the required image file (below), write it to an SD card, insert it into your companion computer (ie Raspberry Pi) and power it on.
Use Balena Etcher to write the images to SD card.
The available images are listed below.
A changelog is available on Github
If you wish to install Rpanion-server from source on an existing system, visit the Rpanion-server repository on Github: https://github.com/stephendade/Rpanion-server for details.
Rpanion-server can connect with and manage the following hardware and services:
Once running, Rpanion-server will broadcast a Wifi hotspot (2.4 GHz only) with the SSID rpanion
and password rpanion123
. Note in the case of the Raspberry Pi 2, a USB Wifi adaptor will be required.
When connected to the Wifi hotspot, the Rpanion-server GUI is available as a website on http://10.0.2.100:3000. This allows the user to configure hardware settings.
For any advanced configuration, the Raspberry Pi's SSH is active, with the username pi
and password raspberry
.
Each version of Rpanion-server has a user manual for the web interface: