Andruav + Mission Planner over 4G/5G, with Live Video

This is the classic Andruav setup: no radio telemetry module, no analog FPV gear — just two Android phones and a cellular connection, giving you Mission Planner control and live video anywhere there’s 4G/5G or WiFi.


Tip

This is the same link that carried radio control input for a 12,193 km demo — a car driven in Cairo, Egypt, with the driver’s controller in Los Angeles, USA. See Andruav Telemetry.


What You Need

  • An Android phone mounted on the drone/vehicle, running Andruav, connected to the ArduPilot flight controller (Bluetooth, USB/Serial, or UDP — see Andruav Serial Port)

  • A SIM with 4G/5G data (or WiFi) on the drone-side phone

  • A free Andruav account and access code — see Andruav Getting Started

  • Mission Planner (or QGroundControl) on the ground, plus a browser for the WebClient


How It Connects

The drone-side phone is the only thing that needs a cellular connection. Everything else — Mission Planner, the WebClient, a second phone — connects to it through the cloud server, so none of them need to be reachable from the internet themselves:

Flight Controller  --(BT/USB/UDP)-->  Android Phone (Andruav)
                                             |
                                       4G/5G/WiFi
                                             |
                                 Cloud.Ardupilot.org
                                       /          \
                       UDP Telemetry Proxy      WebRTC Video
                                 |                     |
                       Mission Planner /      WebClient / /mobile
                       QGroundControl (UDPCI)  (live FPV view)

Setup Steps

  1. Link the flight controller. On the drone phone, open the FCB connection sheet and pick Bluetooth, USB, or WiFi/UDP depending on how your board is wired.

    Andruav FCB connection sheet with Bluetooth, USB, WiFi and UDP options

  2. Confirm the cloud connection. The Comm Server screen should show Cloud.Ardupilot.org connected, with your Unit ID and access code set. This is the same link the WebClient and Mission Planner will both reach through.

    Andruav Comm Server settings screen

  3. Forward telemetry to Mission Planner. Enable the UDP Proxy — from the phone’s settings, or from the WebClient’s Smart Telemetry panel (also reachable from the WebClient — Mobile View) — and point Mission Planner’s UDPCI connection at the IP/port it gives you. Full detail in Web UDP Telemetry.

    Smart Telemetry panel on the mobile WebClient showing the UDP proxy IP and port for Mission Planner

  4. Start live video. Open WebClient (or the lightweight WebClient — Mobile View on a second phone), sign in with the same access code, and press the video icon on the drone’s card to start streaming.

    Live FPV video with telemetry overlay received over 4G/5G

Result

Full Mission Planner control (arm, mode changes, mission upload, RC over the same link) and a live HD video feed, both riding entirely on cellular data — no line-of-sight limit, no separate FPV transmitter, and nothing that needs a public IP or port-forwarding on your end.