Blogs

Hi ya'll,

So Droneshare has become popular enough I was running out of compute resources on my free Heroku instance.  3D Robotics has been kind enough to donate an EC2 instance in their cluster, so I've moved Droneshare over to their server.

For those not familiar, droneshare is an optional/free way to share your flights/tlogs/param files with friends.  Support for uploading to droneshare is built into the Andropilot ground control system.  Drag-and-drop upload is also included on the webpage (though its features are currently a bit limited).

Droneshare/andropilot should work with any vehicle that uses tlog files or mavlink.

Key features of droneshare:

• View flights on google maps or earth
• Download auto generated KML files
• Download auto extracted PARAM files
• Basic parameter plotting (eventually hopefully someone else will make the plotting much nicer)
• Warn about param files with suspicious values
• Sharing links so you can share your flight with G+ or facebook

If you are a dev and want instructions on how to add support to your GCS for droneshare uploads, just send me a note (in short, just a REST PUT with a few params).  Eventually I'll be setup to have other devs help out with the development of droneshare - but I still haven't done some cleanup I need to do. (Before sharing the source I need to change amazon authentication so API access can't leak)

Any questions/ideas/feedback on droneshare/andropilot are always welcome...

Kevin