Copter: easier test of benchtest the parachute

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Copter: easier test of benchtest the parachute #2339

Open rmackay9 opened 9 years ago

rmackay9 commented 9 years ago

At the moment, because of the land-check in the parachute driver (which helps ensure we don't have unintended deployments on the ground near people) it can be difficult for a user to ensure the parachute servo is working during the setup. We should perhaps clarify the testing procedure on the wiki and/or allow an override of the landing check - perhaps by allowing the mission planner to send a deploy-chute command with a magic number in param2 to specify that the chute should deploy no-matter what!

aercamti commented 5 years ago

Yes - please. This very situation has been a struggle when testing parachute for a long time, so the solution suggested would be a welcome addition.

peterbarker commented 3 years ago

This could also be PARACHUTE_FORCE_RELEASE as an extra enumeration value.....

In either case, this is a GoodFirstIssue

khancyr commented 3 years ago

In fact that is pretty easy to trigger the parachute now. I think we got a switch and by hand with propellers it trigger easily

aPR0T0 commented 1 year ago

Hello @rmackay9 I would like to work on this issue, so I would need more details of the same.