in reply to Re: TCP Socket and Serial Port
in thread TCP Socket and Serial Port

None of the two options. He is trying to send commands to an AR Drone. AVR is part of the hardware. BTW, you should note that the AR Drone software has already opened the serial port. So It is also adviseable to kill the drone control software before trying to run this script.
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Re^3: TCP Socket and Serial Port
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 10, 2012 at 17:16 UTC
    He is trying to send commands to an AR Drone. AVR is part of the hardware.

    Hm. Couldn't he have told us that?

    That probably just makes my point. What is going to happen if you have multiple pilots trying to concurrently control a UAV?

    If this is related to Occupy Wall Street protestor Tim Pool has configured one that he calls an occucopter, for citizen-surveillance of police. "We are trying to get a stable live feed so you can have 50 people controlling it in series. If the cops see you controlling it from a computer they can shut you down, but then control could automatically switch to someone else." , the the keywords in there are "in series" which are completely missing from the OP.

    In that case, you'd want a queue of in-bound clients ready to take over when the current client 'drops off'. Emminently doable, but not the way the OP is approaching the problem.


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