feature-remoteid

ArduPilot RemoteID Transmitter

This is an implementation of a MAVLink and DroneCAN OpenDroneID transmitter. It aims to provide a transmitter solution for the FAA standard RemoteID requrement.

Hardware Supported

So far the only hardware that has been tested is the ESP32-S3. This devboard is being used: https://au.mouser.com/ProductDetail/356-ESP32S3DEVKTM1N8

Hardware from https://wurzbachelectronics.com/ and https://bluemark.io/ is expected to work and will be tested soon.

The pins assumed in this firmware are:

• UART TX on pin 17
• UART RX on pin 18
• CAN TX on pin 47
• CAN RX on pin 38

For CAN a suitable 1MBit bxCAN transceiver needs to be connected to the CAN TX/RX pins.

Protocols

This firmware supports communication with an ArduPilot flight controller either using MAVLink or DroneCAN.

For MAVLink the following service is used: https://mavlink.io/en/services/opendroneid.html

For DroneCAN the following messages are used: https://github.com/dronecan/DSDL/tree/master/dronecan/remoteid

The DroneCAN messages are an exact mirror of the MAVLink messages to make a dual-transport implementation easy.

Releases

Pre-built releases are in the releases folder on github

Flashing

To flash to an ESP32-S3 board use the espressif FlashTool from https://www.espressif.com/en/support/download/other-tools

and use the pre-built binary in the releases folder then flash using the following options:

ArduPilot Support

A pull-request with support for both MAVLink and DroneCAN is here:

https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/21075

Credit

Many thanks to the great work by:

• OpenDroneID: https://github.com/opendroneid/
• Steve Jack: https://github.com/sxjack/uav_electronic_ids

This firmware builds on their work.