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Heyas,

just received my Crazyflie today and having a blast I was wondering whether you guys from Bitcraze could make the headless client as referred to from this post public somewhere? I'd love to turn one of my Raspberry Pis into a battery powered ground station and instead of starting from scratch with a custom headless client it would certainly help to get access to the existing approach

Cheers,
Gina

Hi Gina,

The version we used to do this test was very old and didn't use any of our new APIs so we are working on re-writing it. A quick first draft is pushed on the dev-headless branch. It's still dependent on the QT framework but it's a console application. It's started by running cfheadless in the bin folder.

A few things to note since this is a very early version:

• Still dependent on QT (the plan is to remove this very soon)
• Not much error handling yet (the plan is to improve this)
• Values are still hardcoded in the script (like mapping and URI for Crazyflie). They can be changed at the bottom in lib/cfheadless.py
• The headless client will open the first input-device found (so don't plug more than one)
• No good way to quit it yet so you will have to kill the process

We will try to put some more work into the headless client at the end of the week so check back then.

/Marcus

Thanks, that sounds great, I'll give it a try tonight

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