{"id":113,"date":"2020-02-01T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2020-02-01T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T08:10:06","slug":"installing-mission-planner-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Installing Mission Planner (Windows)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The below instructions show how to install&nbsp;<em>Mission Planner<\/em>&nbsp;on Windows. These instructions will be suitable for most users. For advanced users and non-standard installations, instructions are found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ardupilot.org\/planner\/docs\/mission-planner-advanced-installation.html#mission-planner-advanced-installation\">here:<\/a>. A useful video guide for advanced installation of&nbsp;<em>Mission Planner<\/em>&nbsp;is located&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cw7adeD1yeg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Download the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/firmware.ardupilot.org\/Tools\/MissionPlanner\/MissionPlanner-latest.msi\">latest Mission Planner installer from here<\/a><\/li><li>Double click on the downloaded&nbsp;<strong>.msi<\/strong>&nbsp;file to run the installer<a href=\"https:\/\/ardupilot.org\/planner\/docs\/_images\/mp_installation.png\"><\/a><\/li><li>Follow the instructions to complete the setup process. The installation utility will automatically install any necessary software drivers. If you receive a DirectX installation error, please update your DirectX plug-in from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/windows.aspx\">Windows Download Center<\/a>.<\/li><li>If you receive the warning pictured below, select&nbsp;<strong>Install this driver software anyway<\/strong>&nbsp;to continue.<a href=\"https:\/\/ardupilot.org\/planner\/_images\/driver_installation_warning.png\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission Planner is normally installed in the&nbsp;<strong>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mission Planner<\/strong>&nbsp;folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An icon to open the&nbsp;<em>Mission Planner<\/em>&nbsp;is created according to your instructions during the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open Mission PlannerOnce installation is complete, open&nbsp;<em>Mission Planner<\/em>&nbsp;by clicking on its system icon.Then you can either:<a href=\"https:\/\/ardupilot.org\/planner\/docs\/common-connect-mission-planner-autopilot.html#common-connect-mission-planner-autopilot\">Connect Mission Planner to AutoPilot<\/a>&nbsp;in order to receive telemetry and control the vehicle OR<a href=\"https:\/\/ardupilot.org\/planner\/docs\/common-loading-firmware-onto-pixhawk.html#common-loading-firmware-onto-pixhawk\">Load Firmware<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updating Mission Planner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mission Planner<\/em>&nbsp;automatically notifies you about available updates (when it is connected to the Internet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please always run the most current version of Mission Planner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ardupilot.org\/planner\/docs\/mission-planner-advanced-installation.html\">Mission Planner Advanced Installation<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below instructions show how to install&nbsp;Mission Planner&nbsp;on Windows. These instructions will be suitable for most users. For advanced users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rctoysky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}