BeagleBone Black, Pixhawk, and MAVLink

Hardware Companion Computers
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Hello,

I am currently working with the beaglebone black (BBB) and would like to connect it to the pixhawk via serial to telem port 2 then be able to send MAVLink messages from the BBB to pixhawk.

Does anyone have any experience with this particular setup, or know where to begin?

Thank you

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There is nothing special to do, connect Tx Rx and a GND and it will works!

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Here is the doco on how to do it.
http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/companion-computers.html

Thanks, Grant.

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I moved this to the Companion Computers section… Development Team is for Development Team discussions. You can ask Development Questions in #general:development section.

I hope you have your answer to your Questions :slight_smile:

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There are not the doc that shows how to connect Beaglebone black to pixhawk?

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Can I have your contact number please… I’m having problem to connect Beaglebone black to pixhawk…

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Hello,

The connection is like all the UART connection :
BBB ------ pixhawk
TX <------> RX
RX <------> TX
GND <------> GND

Look for example how to plug a FTDI cable on your BBB, connecting the pixhawk is exactly the same !