To make development easier, Dronesmith provides virtual drones and virtual Linux environments for developers to work with.
What is a virtual drone?
A virtual drone is a drone that runs a simulated environment. For all intents and purposes, the drone functions exactly like a real drone, only virtual drones have unlimited battery life, and lack any of the problems that makes working with real drones difficult. They are useful for developers who need to implement higher level solutions before going to hardware. Each virtual drone comes with a fake GPS and Optical Flow unit to ease development.
Inactive Drones
Due to the high performance demand of virtual drones, any drone that has been running for more than an hour with no API activity will be shut down. This does not remove your virtual drone object you have created, but it will require you to restart your drone by running POST /api//start