Dronefly (beta)

Live Streaming from Ardrone camera to Butterfly TV

You can control Ardrone 2.0 and broadcast live from Ardrone 2.0 camera to Butterfly TV with Dronefly. New contributors are welcome to this repo.

Butterfly TV is a Live Stream Messaging app that makes you broadcast Live to Contacts or Social Media (Beta)

Installation

Software is tested in Ubuntu.

• Install ffmpeg (you can use apt-get) and make sure that ffmpeg executable is in your PATH. Because Dronefly directly use ffmpeg via Java Runtime

• Check out the project from this repository and run it on Eclipse

Usage

• PC needs two network interfaces. One is wi-fi interface for connecting to Ardrone and other one is any network interface for connecting internet.

• We first connected ubuntu to Ardrone wi-fi hotspot and secondly we connected Android phone(with internet connection) to ubuntu via USB cable and enabled USB tethering.

• Click "Connect Drone" then "Start Streaming" will be enabled. Write a stream name to text field and click "Start Streaming". You can stop streaming when you hit the same button.

• Right now you can control Ardrone with keyboard commands

  • Take off -> Enter
  • Landing -> Ctrl + Space
  • Hover -> Space
  • Forward -> Arrow Up
  • Backward -> Arrow Down
  • Left -> Arrow Left
  • Right -> Arrow Right
  • Spin Left -> Shift + Arrow Left
  • Spin Right -> Shift + Arrow Right

• Use software with your own risk. There is no responsibility taken in any situation

Here are two videos first one is directly from Ardrone camera that was broadcasted live to Butterfly TV

Second video is the drone above while it was broadcasting

Reminder: Use this software with your own risk. There is no responsibility taken for any circumstances