Parrot Minidrones

This plugin uses your Gateblu host machine's BLE to interface to compatible Parrot BLE Minidrones (Airborner and Rolling Spider). You can use it to control a single drone or a swarm!

Install to a Gateblu or run as a separate connector using the plugin independently

Steps

Satisfy pre-requisites for BLE
Install the "Parrot Minidrones" Gateblu plugin.
Configure Options
Build a flow to send the "connect" command to initiate BLE connection.
Control drones!
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Configure Options

To get to the device options goto Things -> Connected Things - Drone Device

Control a Single Drone

Control Swarm of Specific Drones

Message Schema and Using the Plugin in a Flow

Connect Drones

If your drones are disconnected, Send the "connect" command to them using the configuration shown in this image.

NOTE: A Swarm takes 10 seconds to connect.

Take Off!

After a successful connect, send the takeOff command and your drone(s) should start flying!

Available Commands

        'connect'
        'disconnect'
        'takeOff'
        'land'
        'up'
        'down'
        'forward'
        'backward'
        'turnLeft'
        'turnRight'
        'tiltLeft'
        'tiltRight'
        'frontFlip'
        'backFlip'
        'leftFlip'
        'rightFlip'
        'emergency'
        'flatTrim'
        'release'

Control Interface

For a quick and easy web-panel to control your drone go to control.octoblu.com and connect one to your account.
Then build a dashboard like the one shown
Import this flow.
https://app.octoblu.com/bluprints/import/e79a0c18-f1f6-470e-bb3c-ddd76e74fe3e

This flow takes the name of the button widget from control.octoblu as the command to send to your drone(s).