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[Feature Request] Custom Mavlink messages on Python #739
Description
I'm writing a Dronekit wrapper to make it easier to migrate Dronekit apps and use MAVSDK.
- There are many Mavlink msgs that are not supported.
For example, how can we send aMAV_FRAME_LOCAL_NEDmsg with MAVDK?
msg = self.vehicle.message_factory.set_position_target_local_ned_encode(
0,
0, # SysId
0, # CompId
mavutil.mavlink.MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_NED, # frame
0b111, # mask (ignore x,y,z)
0, # x
0, # y
0, # z
vx, # vx
vy, # vy
vz, # vz
0, # afx
0, # afy
0, # afz
0, # yaw
yawRate, # yaw rate
)
self.vehicle.send_mavlink(msg)
self.vehicle.flush()
- Is there any way to send a custom message built with
message_factorythrough the MAVSDK connection?
This would be very handy (feature request).
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julianoes commentedon Dec 9, 2024
MAVSDK in C++ allows for any message to be sent using the MavlinkPassthrough plugin. However, since that pulls in the MAVLink C headers, that's not currently supported in the language wrappers such as Python.
My plan is to add support for any messages in v4 (v3 is about to come out). It will allow to set and send custom messages at runtime, rather than compile time, along the lines of:
kripper commentedon Dec 9, 2024
Yes, I'm using offboard and I think I can live with some missing Mavlink messages for now.
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