Installation

The Ground Control (GCS) application binary packages are available for different platforms from the apx-gcs github repository releases.

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The complete changelog is available here: CHANGELOG.

MacOS

• Download the DMG image;
• Open the image and move application to the Applications folder;
• Launch the application as usual;

Linux

• Download the AppImage of the GCS application;
• Make the file executable;
• Launch the application by executing the downloaded file;
• Install the app through menu to have automatic updates;

GCS uses serial port to communicate with the radio modem device. User must be a member of dialout group to have rights to access modem device. Execute the following command in terminal to add yourself to the group, then reboot.

sudo usermod -aG dialout $USER
sudo apt remove modemmanager -y

In order to support video streaming, install GStreamer:

sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav -y

More information about AppImage can be found here: appimage.org

Android

The app can be installed through Play Market. Although, it requires PC Ground Control app to communicate with UAV, and is used mainly for maintenance purposes. This app now supports v9 firmware only.

Deprecated Versions

APX Ground Control v10.x

GCS v10 software is available here. The GCS v10.x is compatible with firmware of version v10.x, v9.x and below.

Linux Packages v9.x

Debian packages are available here.

sudo apt install <path to downloaded files>/*.deb

Run the application through KDE’s menu or gcu executable.