Control Parrot ANAFI drones programmatically with the Olympe Python SDK
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Steps
Install Olympe on a Linux-based development machine (Ubuntu is the officially supported target)
Connect to a physical ANAFI (or ANAFI Thermal) aircraft or to the Sphinx simulator, which is Olympe's original intended use case
Issue flight commands and read telemetry through Olympe's Python expectation/command API
Use the GroundSDK-derived message set to control gimbal, camera, and flight parameters consistent with the aircraft's supported command set
Test extensively against Sphinx simulation before flying commands against real hardware to catch command-sequencing errors safely
Known gotchas
Olympe is Linux-only for the controlling host; there is no officially supported Windows/macOS native path for the SDK itself
Olympe was originally built around the Sphinx simulator, so some behaviors (timing, connection handling) differ subtly between simulated and real-drone sessions
Firmware version mismatches between the aircraft and the Olympe/GroundSDK message definitions can cause silently ignored commands rather than explicit errors
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