MAKE A 4G LTE RASPBERRY PI DRONE WITH LIMITLESS RANGE | The Ultimate BVLOS Guide
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- With conventional drones, your range to control it is bound by the RC controller or the telemetry. Normally not getting you more than a couple miles.
But what if you connected your drone to mobile networks?
Well, then the power of limitless range of drone control is unleashed.
In this video, I show you how to take a raspberry pi drone and transform it into a 4G BEAST. We'll cover everything from the hardware setup to the software setup. The final mission involves controlling the drone from 70 miles away (it could easily be thousands of miles, but I didn't want to make the drive).
This is the ultimate technical guide for unleashing BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) control of your drone. This video was made possible by the Drone Dojo PiHawk drone kits, which feature a Raspberry Pi and a Pixhawk running Ardupilot.
The prerequisite to this video is having a flyable raspberry pi drone that we will upgrade to being 4G capable.
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0:00 Introduction
3:36 Hardware Overview
6:27 Setting Up The UBEC With USB-C
14:06 Mount the 4G Shield To The Drone
22:53 Setting Up The Firmware To Activate 4G Connectivity
32:26 Limitless Telemetry Range With MAVProxy
49:29 Limitless SSH Range With Reverse SSH Tunnel
1:04:52 Setup Automatic Reverse SSH Tunnel On The Pi
1:15:20 Control Drone From 70 Miles Away
1:23:04 What's Next? - Навчання та стиль
Thanks so much. You not only cleared my concept of drones but networking too. Hats off to you.
Projects like THIS are the reason I applied for BVLOS drone pilot license. This is amazing! Great video and really enjoyable to watch! Keep up the good work!
Bruh, we designed this in 2019 for our capstone project @LSU. Glad to see someone else picked it up and understands how crazy this technology really is. We gave the PI with our 4G modem camera a cloud server ip to receive mav link protocols to run the autonomous commands.
This is just soooo good. Massive kudos to you for such an amazingly useful project and with all the detail one could want. I'm trying to move up a pretty steep learning curve at the moment with both hardware and software, and this is one of the things on my todo list. Now easily solvable! :)
Nice comprehensive guide, fills every conceptual and technical gaps
Thanks for the time and the effort you put.
can't describe how helpful is this, thanks you soo much, legend!
one of the most detailed video drone integration I've ever seen
Thank you for putting together an easy to follow guide for such a technical project. You must have spent a ton of time and effort prepping but man it really payed off in the final product. I never felt lost along the way and your delivery was very entertaining 10/10 !
(Just as the tutorial ends a mysterious man enters the room, slowly clapping) "Impressive… but we know you have been holding something back from the very beginning. Well we’ve waited long enough!. No more games, no more feigning ignorance… It is time to reveal the Pihawks true purpose!…"
(pause for dramatic effect) "Low Latency, High Fidelity, Digital FPV!!!!"
(cut to black, fade in title card)
" Pihawk Trilogy Part 3 - The SPihawk Initiative "
"COMING SOON, straight to VHS"
…But seriously an FPV tutorial would be bad ass, don’t leave us hanging bro…🙏🏻
Dude, your videos are incredible... The possibilities are endless! You could also strap an old phone on the drone sharing the wifi, I think it would be easier. Imagine putting solar cells on the drone and letting it recharge by itself while it's miles away 😯
nice tut, good balance between tech details and range of subject covered. there seems to be many available solution now to get embedded 4G connectivity. Liking this one which doesn't involve too much setup/diy burden while still giving you enough control over your hardware/software
This is an amazingly informative video!!!! For I am not even a novice (do not even own a drone) I am currently looking for a new hobby. And with your immense knowledge given. I do believe you helped me find one. Kuddos!!! Your videos are by far the best on this topic.
Thank You! This video is well needed for our Drone Club.
You are the hero of many. Not the people of now but the future.
Cool! It opens the door for future projects in my project book.
This is what I had done for my Final year project in college. Thank you for the good explanation.
Did it work correctly? Used any other script other than takeoff and land?
Parrot drone (you know the early prototype quad copter guys), have made a cell tower version of their drone called an ANAFI UAV. It's cool to see people doing this. Truly powerful to allow self driving vehicles to connect to cell towers for long distance recon.
This is gold!
great stuff man! 👍 really enjoyed it.👌
keep it up ✊✊✊
I just found your channel and without a doubt you have some mad content. Kudos 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'm about to build my own and more confident watching this
Damn bro without talking anymore. Insaneeeee 😎
I'm thinking about to make drone working on 150-200 MHz, so I can make a repeater somewhere and rule the drone from the far. The video quality is not in priority, but the safety of pilot to stay far from the radio-source. Your videos helped me to have a progress in making plane-drone. Now, some problems to solve and make this more massive for our guys.
thanks for sharing this awsome project!
Great work! Hats off! Thank you for your video
Appreciate that Praveen!
Just got time to watch the intro but this is going to be exciting. Saved for later !
Nice, hope you enjoy it Joshua!
I know I am late to this video but, there is a program to simplify connecting to raspberry pi. It is called tailscale. It is lightweight for the pi, very easy to use and you don't need to do anything with the ports or the public IPs, it does everything for you and gives you it's own IP which you can connect to from anywhere in the world even if you're behind a NAT. The documentation behind tailscale is pretty solid and I have been using it for a long time now. Never disappointed yet. It is also free for basic use.
This may help you create a new video (also requesting one) where you can control the drone as well as get footage back (as the prepaid unlimited plans are very cheap). A fun experiment to try if you're up for it.
Thank you very much! After trying, couldn't agree more with what you said, really good.
Love the video, definitely need this for a cosplay idea
very usefull video learned a lot !
Very cool. Yip, Good work man!
Thanks Tim!
Very informational video. thanks alot.
absolutely brilliant work. This is going to help me develop my autonomous secp256k1 drone for secure communication globally and to exit telemetry and video to my secure servers as well as share live feeds. I will be in touch to buy a couple of these when my funding lands.
Great Video, Thank you
Great video! I was having issues querying an SQL database from my sixfab shield on the drone to a remote database, but your video solved it form me ❤️
Noice!! Glad you found this info helpful!
What was exactly the problem and how did you fix it, if I may ask? I"m going to try the same in a while. Thankyou
Excited
Hope you like it @kailash!!!
Good video thnx ! Thinking of a 4 g baitboat setup 😊 now
OMG Youare a Golden Boy men Thanks for all..
Also, after thinking about this a bit, it might be good to add a conformal coating to the Pi and any exposed electronics. Humidity can be an issue for some PCB/SBCs, and flying beyond-line-of-sight, it would be good to take that off of Murphy’s table so to speak.
valid point
Cool man! Great video!
Glad you liked it!
that is amazing
Thank you 🙏
Absolutely awesome and detailed vid bud! I specifically appreciate people like you who are detailed oriented and put up or shut up. You take your time to explain things knowing not everyone (including myself) know shit about drones or are all but babies at it. Man I am working hard and spending money to become good like you at this. I am a DevOps and Linux engineer by trade and love to see you scripting. Nice… very nice bro! Can I buy this stuff? And where and what do I need to get this very same kit?
Thanks
Glad you found the video useful John! Funny, you''re a DevOps engineer by trade. Before drones I was a DevOps engineer too! I think us DevOps guys are DIY learning machines, so you'll definitely be able to absorb this drone stuff. We have drone kits with the exact same parts shown in this video. If you go to my website dojofordrones.com and click on Drone Kit at the top menu it will take you there. Shoot me an email at caleberg@dojofordrones.com if you have any questions about anything!
@@thedronedojo Hi awesome video btw, very comprehensive. Please what's the name of the soundtrack at 36:30
Very awesome. I want to build something similar but much smaller with a raspberry pico
This is so hilariously complex, I love it. I am not even into Drones, just researching 4g modules! 😂❤
We doing all of this!
Just bumped into your channel.
Very interesting. I have seen videos of mobile service connected drones (mainly with RC planes due to power to distance efficiencies), never seen one with a Quad (not that I have really looked).
I'm Very interested and will be checking out your site and more videos shortly.
yo! I have the kit! lol LOVE this channel
Salute bro
Nice job keep going bro👍
Thank You!
No prob!
hey, instead of a reverse shell you could host a vpn server, and inside that virtual network you can easily connect to your drone from any other device connected to the vpn as well
Very good
YeahMan this is what i want ,
Awesome guide! Keep it up! Question: maybe I missed it, but does the six fab module also works with a prepaid Simcard with 10GB of for example Vodafone in The Netherlands?
woah !
Hope you got some value out of the video Keita!
I play this video to saw drone going 70 mile(112.654 Km ). But learn ssh pi on dynamic ip. 🔥
I think huge success. 👌
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Did you say whhendys? Whhat? Awesome build dude this thing is sweet.
Making a drone, even surface drone only limited by the 4g network coverage means- alot :)
Very nice project!! Great job!! What if you put all this setup to a big chunky motors the one user to agroculture ones that will work,pr what will be the modification to do to make it work.
Should look at wireguard for the connection between the drone and the base.
Very cool! Now if I could just find a pi in stock locally
FYI, there are titanium, Nylon, and Aluminum standoffs available from various merchants. Not sure I would Nylon or Aluminum but if weight is an issue, it’s one way to trim a bit of weight easily.
That's a good thing to be aware of!
So in practical and legal terms, a theoretical capability for Merkins. But nice.
Following along with the ardurover project. Please make a video of this but with the Jetson Nano on Wall-E. 🤞🤞🤞
One of the best project videos I have seen on UA-cam. Amazing work and appreciate the thoroughness. I recently had a BOM (using Cube and readytosky components) put together and was going to embark on the journey of creating my own drone mainly for automated surveillance missions. The issue really came down to optics. Getting a gimbal and camera and operating that in addition to the flight systems seemed like something that would be quite expensive and deliver subpar results. It seemed almost more reasonable to get a DJI and use their SDK. Can you recommend a current article that frames and considers this dilemma? Perhaps some comments on Cube as well? After seeing this video I am now questioning my conviction to off the shelf drones but really for the application of surveillance how well can a DIY drone compete.
I appreciate the kind words, Darren! Glad you found the video useful.
I would say the ArduPilot/PX4 DIY drone vs DJI is a real dilemma. The DIY route is ideal for custom functionality. For example I imagine trying to enable a DJI drone with 4G would be much more difficult than an ArduPilot drone.
But the DJI drones are clearly superior out of the box machines. I guess for you, it comes down to if you're able to develop your surveillance functionality within the SDK that DJI provides. Depending on who your customers are, there may be security concerns regarding backdoor CCP access.
As far as the cube goes, I don't have direct experience with it. I consider the jump to the pixhawk to be equivalent to the jump from the Nokia brick phone to the Iphone 1. And the difference between the pixhawk 1 and the cube based boards to be equivalent to the jump from iphone 1 to iphone 5- there may be some more functionality, but 99% of what you can do on the iphone 5 can be done on the iphone 1. And a cube and carrier board may be 3x more expensive than a pixhawk 1 (aka 2.4.8). Just my 2 cents on that.
Thanks for the video it’s very explanatory
Just a quick question…. Can any SIM card be used
Very compete tutorial, thank you. One thing I don't understand, most solutions use zerotier or other cpns to connect ground to air without public ip. Ssh reverse tunneling does need it? Thx!
Awesome video! Is it also possible to use a standard SIM card with a 4G subscription from a different provider?
Really good project men. Can i do this using my mobile phone itself instead of the sixfab modem?
Awesome video! Btw why did you choose to not use the bigger pin extender and connect the pixhawk to the raspberry pi that way, would it not work? I'm considering getting a lidar usb module for my drone with the 4g shield but i would rather use the pin on the pi than USB for the pixhawk to pi connection.
Awesome tutorials, thank you, question, why not use sim7600A-H 4G hat instead of sixfab?
Thank you for a great video. One question. If I am taking power from the Lipo, through the ESC to the pixhawk, do I still use the usb cable too? The last time I did both it blew it. I am also not using the 5v (red) to power the Pi from the Pixhawk, it will have a USB 12 -5v converter from the other Lipo. So, do I use the power Lipo-Esc-Pix and the USB cable?
Excellent, thanks for sharing such a detailed tutorial. Will FPV over 4G be too laggy? remote camera vision would be a great addition as a follow-up video;) Thanks again for such a great project. Subbed
Depending on the lte modem, the bandwith will be really small, like 100KB/s. Proper not iot modems are quite pricy and consume quite amount of power.
Thanks... Would it be possible to overlay an osd display on the live video showing calculated info like vertical speed using this drone? Any suggestions please would be very welcome
Yes supposedly the Gatwick incursion was flown from Holland.
Instead of sshtunnel u can use no-ip dynamic dns so u can connect through static domain even with out knowing IP, even IP changes in RPI it auto updates it self
I love your video! But one major questin: can I use a portable router instead of a fixed router at home to do this in the remote ssh method?
Very nice! Now do it under 250g! :)
I love how you know all this stuff, but still not activate windows🤣😋👍 nice one man👍
Hahahaha XD
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Free to use Maan just can't personalize your stuff which is like that really worth 100$
. Noticed ebay axed the 1$ key market
Why would anyone want to activate that garbage. Free garbage is better. Question is why not using a linux option?
Remember kids!!! use protection if you are going to use windows and run windows in a VM
Cool video. Can you change this to run from a mobile base station laptop using 2 sim cards...1 for base station, and 1 for drone to get away from having to use your WAN address at home?
Perfect video and explanation. It really helped me a lot. However, the internet connection from a modem/router is a problem for me, based on my team's goals. Do you know how i can communicate rasp to my PC using 4G LTE modem instead of a internet router? That's why we can't have access to router on my team lab. Then we came up with the idea to buy an 4G LTE modem, but 4G LTE doesn't have an public, so that we cant send commands from Mavproxy. I hope i made myself clear. Thanks
To save weight, can the mavlink radiolink system be removed as it's now defunkt yes?
You asked what kind of projects am I thinking of? 1, how to do this for a fixed wing. 2, how can I do that WAY cheaper, and 3, either you have to be running like a 12s li-po or 2 6s li-pos or something because that has to be pulling a lot of power.
Hey Caleb,
Can we use this to make an autonomous ambulance drone?
I would love a tutorial for that and a drone which streams data over 4g
Cool stuff, thanks so much 😉is there a similar technique for video streaming as well?
Just steam from the pi
Very interesting video, thank you. I wonder if this system works with Pixhawk only or can be assembled on other flight controllers
should work with anything that can run px4 or ardupilot
Would be cool to see how well this works for FPV R/C on the ground...pretty sure FAA doesn't regulate the ground, though these day's who knows, 😂
You need to invent a way to have a drone automatically land on a device that does a battery swap and takes the existing battery and charges it for the next drone … and put it on a rooftop. You can then put them on a map and program logic to automatically fetch a battery as needed and return to flight. Then you can program a cross-country flight (I.e. New York to California). Just figure you might need it to land every 25 miles then it would need maybe 100 battery swaps cross-country. If these were automated taking 3 minutes then only 5 hours is spent refueling. The remainder of the time it could maintain maybe 40 MPH. That would make it a three day trip.
Or have lamp posts with wifi charging facilities ....
This is the next iteration of automated drones its called 5 g/ wifi-backpacking....
Interesting thought. I've been developing a charging post system that the machine flys to as waypoints.. on arrival it it either plugs itself in or sits on a charging pad. Right now the technique to locate and attach to the charge station and the method of securing it in place on a pad are still hush hush. But as folks get up to speed hopefully they (you) will build on the idea of waypoint charging.
Cool video, how to stream video and audio using LTE/4G with the rapsberry pi?
Can this same approach be applied to a nitro/rc car? I would assume so. But I'm not certain about the potential interference that the vibration of the engine might cause.
Very nice working, where can I buy electronic cards?
I have a question. Instead of using UART connection between Pixhawk and RPi, we can simply use USB-micro connection (USB from RPi and micro into Pixhawk)? For the UART connection we need to setup - enable GPIO on RPi, so for the USB-micro connection, do we need to setup anything on RPi?
Brainstorming on how to integrate drones into IoT projects. If you have any kind of projects to share would be great. Security of an area is one I'm investigating. Rent a drone for the area Security. Mount load speakers on drone and camera with some AI to alert intruders. The Camera could spin around slowly and ascend up to sound off the message to the intruder of a shipping container yard.
Cleaver Boy. You figured out reverse tunneling, I tried to explain this to people back in 2014. No one knew WTF I was talking about...Glade to see you guys have caught up.
holy shit!
Couldn't have said it better myself XD
If you leave the drone in Mexico you have to activate roaming :)))
What does the sixfab piece of code do?
Does this hat work with other sim-card/service providers?
Liked this with my non-dominant hand.
What a legend :)
epic video, how much does it cost flying this over 4g with camera stream ? sixfab says 10 $ per GB, so i hope its not too expensive, thanks
Am I able to do this using a MATEK H743? Those are my favorite boards to run ardupilot with, and I already have multiple craft that I would love to give this kind of connectivity to lol.
Oh, i get it. instead of uploading to the cloud through the internet now with the drone we fly to the cloud and unload there 😅