Environment setup

Create a simulated drone

First things first, you need a drone to connect to. For this example we will use Sphinx to create a simulated drone and then connect to it using Olympe before sending our first commands.

If you haven’t installed Sphinx yet, now is a good time to install it.

Then in a shell enter the following commands:

$ sudo systemctl start firmwared.service
$ sphinx "/opt/parrot-sphinx/usr/share/sphinx/drones/anafi_ai.drone"::firmware="https://firmware.parrot.com/Versions/anafi2/pc/%23latest/images/anafi2-pc.ext2.zip"

The core application is now waiting for an UE4 application to connect… In a second shell, do:

$ parrot-ue4-empty

The above commands start a simulation of an ANAFI Ai drone in an empty world. In the following examples, we will be using the virtual ethernet interface of the simulated drone, and reach it at 10.202.0.1.

At the end of each example, remember to reset the simulation before getting into the next example. Each example assumes that the drone is landed with a fully charged battery. Just enter sphinx-cli action -m world fwman world_reset_all in a terminal to reset the current simulation.

For more information on Sphinx, please consult its comprehensive user documentation.

Set up your shell environment

If you’ve built Olympe from source, you should activate your Python environment before continuing this user guide.

$ source ~/code/parrot-olympe/shell
(olympe-python3) $