Video Pi IF800A Developer Guide

Setup

Push new video script to pi

  • Plug into the IF800A through ethernet and set your static IP to be within the 192.168.144.X band.

Push a new video script to the pi

  1. Download the script if you do not have it. It should be named rtsp_server_hdmi_usb.py

  2. Type this command to push it to the pi

scp rtsp_server_hdmi_usb.py ift@192.168.144.56:/home/ift
  1. Type the password weflydrones and hit enter.

  2. Reboot drone (or if you are ssh'd in, you can do systemctl restart rtsp_server.service

SSH into the PI

  1. Type the following in a terminal

ssh ift@192.168.144.56
  1. Type the password weflydrones and hit enter.

Test script via command line so you can see live output (optional)

  1. Follow step above to ssh into the pi

  2. Stop the rtsp_server service so you can manually run it (it will automatically start if you reboot)

  1. Run the script

  1. To stop the script, hit CTRL + C

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