Mission Planner Wifi Connection HowTo

Ground Control Software Mission Planner
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Hello,

I’m trying to get MissionPlanner to connect via WIFI but I had no success so far.

Is there a checklist or a howto for this?

TL:DR

The wiki entry has been written when there was no autoconnect running in the background, so I had to disable it in config.xml to follow the wiki steps.

I run MissionPlanner on a Desktop PC with Win 10 and my connection partners have been an ELRS TX module streaming Mavlink via BackPack and a Speedybee F405 Wing Mini with attached Wireless Adapter.
In both cases I’m connected via AccessPoint of the specific device and the connection attempt runs forever, as if nobody connects to the socket and since I have this issue with both devices, I’m sure Windows 10 is thwarting my attempts.

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I suppose you connect through UDP with the router. You can try a few things:

  • Access router and look for its connections.
  • Find IP address of the wifi adapter and ping it.
  • Access the wifi adapter with its IP on browser.
  • Use an IP scanner.
  • Observe traffic and ports used with LiveTcpUdpWatch utility.

BTW, in the past I got several wfi adapters with which connection was impossible. I substituted the chips and got them working perfectly.

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Thanks,

I connect to the AP generated by the specific module, e.g. the Speedybee Wireless Adapter, and I can ping those devices. I even nmap-ed the devices and I don’t find any open UDP port on 14550. I assume MissionPlanner listens on 14550@localhost and nobody connects to it or firewall blocks it although I allowed it.