Control a drone with your laptop

Question

I wonder how to control a drone with your laptop and which programming language can be used ?

Answer 1

Well I think this is really hard to do. First of all you have to differentiate if the drone is using a WLAN connection or an ISM-Band (FHSS) connection.
1) WLAN: the connection is usually encrypted so you can not get the data from the drone or send data to the drone. And the protocol used to control a drone is usually not public.
2) ISM-Band: besides the fact that the protocols are not open you need a transmitter to send out the FHSS-Signal. Like the remote control usually does.

There is a single vendor I know that offers you a SDK with a library and the specification of the commands that you can send: DJI - just search for the DJI SDK and they offer you a solution to program apps for OSX or Android.