Does the mavlink fork from Ardupilot work with MAVSDK?

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MAVLink micro air vehicle marshalling / communication library

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Does the mavlink fork from Ardupilot work with MAVSDK? #333

Closed qishen closed 1 year ago

qishen commented 1 year ago

I'm trying to use MAVSDK to communicate with ArduCopter and it seems MAVSDK is mainly targeted for PX4 but I wonder if it will work if I swap the default mavlink library with the mavlink fork from here. I'm also curious what's the main reason to maintain a fork of mavlink here.

rmackay9 commented 1 year ago

Hi @qishen,

AP maintains it's own mavlink fork just to protect us from incompatible upstream changes. We do this for pretty much all external projects so it's not that we don't trust the mavlink maintainers of course, we work with them closely, it's just about maintaining stability.

AP can work with MAVSDK and there are a couple of developers who have put work into this. My understanding is that there is still a bit more work to do to make AP completely compatible but it should work. I think even if AP's mavlink fork wasn't used it would still work.

This is really a question so I will close this issue. Txs.