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Copter SITL/MAVProxy Tutorial : Wrong instructions #1733

Closed Orbitography closed 5 years ago

Orbitography commented 5 years ago

There are 2 lines supposed to start SITL :

cd ~/ardupilot/ArduCopter sim_vehicle.py --map --console

They send back an error because there is no sim_vehicle.py in ~/ardupilot/ArduCopter There is a sim_vehicle.py in ~/ardupilot/Tools/autotest but trying in on this file send an error message :

SIM_VEHICLE: Start SIM_VEHICLE: ** Is (autotest) really your vehicle type? Perhaps you could try -v ArduCopter|AntennaTracker|APMrover2|ArduSub|ArduPlane You could also try changing directory to e.g. the ArduCopter subdirectory

SIM_VEHICLE: Killing tasks

What should be the right instructions in the Wiki ( http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/copter-sitl-mavproxy-tutorial.html ) ?

kd0aij commented 5 years ago

I create a directory below the vehicle directory e.g. ArduCopter/sitl_test and then run ../../Tools/autotest/sim_vehicle.py from there (as suggested by the usage info) This results in an eeprom.bin and logs subdirectory (and other files) located in ArduCopter/sitl_test

brunoolivieri commented 5 years ago

Hi, I believe that is solved. I believe that this issue could be closed. regards,

rmackay9 commented 5 years ago

I've slightly fixed the instructions so it says to run ../Tools/autotest/sim_vehicle.py (i.e. prepended the path to the correct directory). Txs for the report!