# Flight controller (Pixhawk)

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [1 September 2018 08:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743 "2018-09-01T08:22:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rifkywiguna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rifkywiguna](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rifkywiguna)\
**Post date:** [1 September 2018 08:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743/1 "2018-09-01T08:22:46Z")

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hello,

How can flight controllers (pixhawk) be read on node red and can display data (such as altitude, coordinates) on the dashboard?

(sorry my english not good)  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [1 September 2018 08:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743/2 "2018-09-01T08:35:23Z")

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1. Look at [flows.nodered.org](http://flows.nodered.org) and see if anyone has created a node for nodered
2. If not see if there is an API that you can get the information from

If you can do 1 or 2

There are examples of the data format you would need for graphs and the base map which you can display in the dashboard on [flows.nodered.org](http://flows.nodered.org)

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**Author:** ![rifkywiguna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rifkywiguna](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rifkywiguna)\
**Post date:** [3 September 2018 02:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743/3 "2018-09-03T02:10:29Z")

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thanks for your answer

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**Author:** ![Asad.Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Asad.Khan](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Asad.Khan)\
**Post date:** [29 November 2022 13:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743/4 "2022-11-29T13:35:03Z")

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There is another solution, you can use A NODE-RED node (Link:[GitHub - Asadsaeed003091/node-red-contrib-mf-mavlink](https://github.com/Asadsaeed003091/node-red-contrib-mf-mavlink) ) that can decode all the mavlink message comming on a serial port. Through that node you can get any mavlink message like (Altitude, pitch, roll )

 ![serial](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/d/7/d707b63e3efffdc8bc65be8cf83617cf8e2c055e.png)  
etc

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [29 November 2022 15:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743/5 "2022-11-29T15:17:58Z")

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@Asad.Khan thanks for your solution! Seeing how the thread is four years old, I'll close it at this point.

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [29 November 2022 15:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flight-controller-pixhawk/2743/6 "2022-11-29T15:18:04Z")

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