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Ar Drone 2.0 Camera Not Working

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I am trying to connect my AR Drone 2.0 to ARC and I can get it to fly but for some reason I cannot get the camera to work. I can activate the camera on my computer however it will not allow me to switch the camera to the drone. I do have V2 selected and the config and connection with the drone appears to be working as the other features are functioning.

I have the latest version of ARC as I just downloaded it 2 days ago and I have the latest firmware on my drone.

Has anyone encountered this?

Thanks


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#17  

Ah... I missed that. It does not.

So now how to I get this through the anti-virus or firewall?

I am running McAfee to open a Citrix VPN and my firewall may e controlled by an administrator. I do however own my Laptop.

#18  

OK,

So now I can take pictures in Free Flight but still unable to sync the video.

#19  

So, just to be clear, you can take stills in freeflight but not see video? Just verifying we are not dealing with am ARC issue anymore. We'll still see what we can do for suggestions, but you might have better results at one if the drone specific forums since there are just a handful of AR Drone users here.

Alan

#20  

Alan,

Yes that is correct, but the plot has thickened. Since I have been making rules for my firewall I was able to FLY the drone in FF. If I remove all of the exceptions I cannot connect to the drone in Free Flight but I can connect to the Movement Panel in EZ Build with full control.

Also, by adding the rules I can take stills in better resolution with EZ-B and view them in FF.

The issue I believe is the 192.168.1.1:5555, the :5555 is not a true endpoint just a default error message. I am not sure how to properly notate IP Addresses(ranges) to be recognized by windows.

I understand this is support for this particular software and I really appreciate the help you have been providing. To be blunt, most drone support forums I have found are more concerned with simplistic issues like setting up a repeater or connecting a joystick but my intention is to further my education and experience with drones and robotics.

Thanks again and if you want to fold from this issue I completely understand it is not a software issue and appreciate your help!

Eric

#21  

So the AR Drone (unless you flash a custom firmware and then SSH to it and change its I settings) will always just be address 192.168.1.1

the :5555 is the port, (UDP I believe) that the video streams back to the computer on.

Here are the standard ports for the AR Drone:

Port 5556- UDP packets with regular commands; Port 5554- Reply UDP data packets from AR.Drone; Port 5555- Reply video stream packets from AR.Drone; Port 5559- TCP packets for critical data that cannot be lost usually for configuration

So opening those ports or all traffic to and from 192.168.1.1 in your firewall should resolve it.

Here is a site with some other useful information (that I copied the port list from): http://www.robotappstore.com/Knowledge-Base/How-to-Program-ARDrone-Remotely-Over-WIFI/96.html

Alan

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