I agree the video documentation is very poor at the moment. Hopefully, 3DR will follow through with their promise (like they usually do albeit slowly) to update their video API.
- First, install the solo-cli on your computer. If you'd rather not do this step, then you can run the commands listed inside this python file instead.
- After installing solo-cli, we need to generate and accept the public keys from the solo and controller. To do this, do the following:
- Connect to your Solo's wifi then ssh [email protected] with Putty. Password is TjSDBkAu From there, accept the key and you'll be logged in to the controller. At this point just exit.
- ssh [email protected] with the same password, accept then close. At this point, you are all set up. If you don't do the above two steps, you'll have problems with solo-cli connecting. They just don't tell you that in the documentation.
- Now do solo-cli video acquire and your solo will reboot.
- Next, open up Notepad and paste the content of the SDP file here. Save it as sololink.sdp but make sure you choose All Files in the drop down list otherwise it'll end up saving it as sololink.sdp.txt
- This is the tricky part.. You will need to initiate a connection to the controller to tell it "Hey, I'm going to be the app that will receive this video feed." If you are on Windows, try telnet 10.1.1.1 5502 from a command prompt but I haven't tested this. Let me know if it doesn't work. On Mac and Linux, just do nc 10.1.1.1 5502
- When all goes well, you should be able to open the SDP file in VLC and immediately see your stream.