ImportError: cannot import name connect

[Jakkev]

Hello,

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspian Buster. I tried to install Dronekit, but every time I try to run a python program I get the error ImportError: cannot import name connect. And it does not matter if i write: from dronekit import connect or just: import dronekit Always the same error. I checked pip list and its in the list.

I already looked here on Github and Stackoverflow. But unfortunately none of the tips I found helped. I also tried with different pip's pip2 install, pip3 install, as well as with pip install git+https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-python. And to start the script with python and python3. Installing Dronekit within virtualenv unfortunately did not solve the problem either.

At the end I only want the GPS coordinates, altitude and bearing of the Pixhawk. If I can retrieve these data without dronekit, that would be also enough for me.

I hope you guys can help me somehow.

[leonardocfor]

Hi Jakkev. Can you share the code in the Python script you are running?

[Jakkev]

Jeah of course.

import dronekit

from dronekit import connect, VehicleMode vehicle = connect('/dev/serial0', wait_ready=True, baud=921600)

It's only to try the import.

[leonardocfor]

I don't know if it is a typo, but otherwise you should remove the hashtag (#) from the line #import dronekit (the # is commenting the line therefore it is not being executed) and it should work.

A second thing should be kept in mind regarding the port (/dev/serial0) you are using to connect to the vehicle in order to work. Follow the instructions in this link to do so.

https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/raspberry-pi-via-mavlink.html

[Jakkev]

Thank you for your help.

I followed the link you send me before and also tried Mavproxy.py and this works. I have only problems with dronekit.

For the script I typed, I used this example: https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-python And i also tried exactly this script from dronekit, but unfortunately I get the same error.

With "import dronekit" I wanted to try if I can import the whole dronekit library without "from dronekit import connect". But also there comes the same error: ImportError: cannot import name 'connect' from 'dronekit

[leonardocfor]

Can you open the python interpreter and just run import dronekit? If it does not work, it means dronekit is not installed. That is the pip/pip3 command did not work. In such case, you can try to install it again and paste here the output of the pip/pip3 command.

[Jakkev]

sorry for the late response.

I found my dumb mistake. I named the file for the test dronekit.py and this caused the error. After I renamed it worked.

Thank you for your help and time.

[simeneide]

oh my god, exact same mistake here 🤦

[neilpotdukhe23]

same mistake here hahaha

[heleidsn]

same mistake here 🤦