Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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In a sense, anything you would like and can translate in a 60 by uint8_t array. At this point it would be better if you would look into the code and doc I've provided earlier.
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Hi,
For example, I have 3 crazyflies; what I understood that p2p communication is like CF1 broadcasts messages to the others CFs: listeners, what I want, that all send messages to each other, in this case, all in mode broadcasts I think, there is no risk of information collision?.
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Yes there is chance of message collision. With broadcast it doesn't care about this since it does not expect a return message (the ACK). Normally, in non-broadcast mode, the CF that transmits will keep on sending the same message until he gets a reply. That is how he handles the message 'collision'

With broadcasting, just send the message several times and hope for the best. With 3 I don't think you will need to worry about it too much
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Hi,

is that the modified firmware for the communication between crazyflies? https://github.com/knmcguire/SGBA_CF2_App_layer

Thanks!
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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you can look at that repository as an example yes. Its still a very simple implementation though. Good luck!
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Hi Kimberly,

Thanks a lot for your reply!
p2p communication is like all CFs in mode broadcast, there is no reply, for example, if CF1 sends a message to CF2 and CF3, CF2 and CF3 cant reply!
what I understand, it does not be, as ESB protocol is like a star network topology, only one receiver, and transmitters. I don' t know if I'm correct?
like in this figure!
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Broadcast mode does not wait for the reply of others (ACK). If you just send it every once in a while, or have a time.sleep() with different times based on the crazyflie IDs, that will be fine untill up to 6-7 crazyflies. Otherwise you can also implement some kind of round robin style (CF1 starts, CF2 sends next after receiving from CF1, CF3 goes next).

The p2p functionality is still basic so you will need to implement the timing protocol yourself. However, there is now an applayer example in the crazyflie-firmware repository to get started (https://github.com/bitcraze/crazyflie-f ... er_to_peer).
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Hi,


Is there a way to save positions of each crazyflie in real time? Something can help me ?

Thank you!
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Re: Crazyflie_Communication_between each other

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Could you please start a new forum thread? This is a different topic than the p2p communication our discussion was about previously.
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