Ground Control Station for Paparazzi UAV

The new GCS for Paparazzi UAV in C++/QT5!

It should be straightforward to use it if you are familiar with paparazzi. Check the documentation for more details.

If you did not installed Paparazzi yet, see the quick Paparazzi installation guide.

INSTALLATION

From Paparazzi PPA

Add the paparazzi PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:paparazzi-uav/ppa

And install Pprzgcs!

sudo apt-get install pprzgcs

If you don't launch it from the paparazzi center, set the PAPARAZZI_HOME and PAPARAZZI_SRC environment variables.

Using the AppImage

If you are not on Ubuntu 20.04 or later, or if you want the latest changes, the best is to use the AppImage.

Get the latest release, and give the AppImage the execution rights, then launch it.

To make it work with the paparazzi center, make a symbolic link named pprzgcs in one of you PATH directories.

The developer version may have new features or bug fixes not landed in releases yet. Open an issue to ask a developer to make a new release.

Build from sources

Ubuntu 20.04 prerequisite

Install the dependencies:

sudo apt install extra-cmake-modules libsqlite3-dev libzip-dev qtbase5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libqt5texttospeech5-dev libproj-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

Ubuntu 18.04 prerequisite

Install the dependencies:

sudo apt install extra-cmake-modules libsqlite3-dev libzip-dev mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

QT5

Install Qt5.12.0 or above.

Setup in your .bashrc the environnement variable Qt5_DIR for cmake to find Qt5:

export Qt5_DIR="/path/to/Qt/5.12.0/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt5"

PROJ 6.3.1

From the PprzGCS root:

Hint: speed up build by running export MAKEFLAGS=-j$(nproc) before building.

curl -L https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/releases/download/6.3.1/proj-6.3.1.tar.gz | tar -xz -C ext
cmake -S ext/proj-6.3.1/ -B build/ext/proj -DPROJ_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=build/install
cmake --build build/ext/proj
cmake --install build/ext/proj

Common instructions

cd to the PprzGCS root, and get the submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Then just run the build script: ./build.sh

To be able to run it from the paparazzi center, you need to add the build/pprzgcs directory to your $PATH. Adapt this command and add it to your .bashrc:

export PATH="/path/to/PprzGCS/build:$PATH"

You should now be able to launch it from the Paparazzi center.

If you want to run it from the terminal, set the PAPARAZZI_HOME and the PAPARAZZI_SRC environment variables to your paparazzi path, then just run ./build/pprzgcs

gRPC

Add -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path/to/gRPC> -DGRPC=ON to build with gRPC.

See instructions to buils gRPC from source here: [https://grpc.io/docs/languages/cpp/quickstart/].

Mac

PprzGCS have been successfully built for Mac, although is not officially supported. You are on you own ;-)

More details are given in the documentation

CONTRIBUTING

Project home repository is at https://github.com/paparazzi/PprzGCS.

Make pull requests here to contribute.