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SITL runner for DroneKit.
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Flightgear integration not present #86

Open randomProgrammer opened 8 years ago

randomProgrammer commented 8 years ago

I'm successfully running dronekit-sitl on OS X El Capitan, but as far as I can tell the precompiled binaries do not support sending data to flightgear which is handy for visualisation. This seems to be supported by the legacy SITL, see fgout arg:

# pysim args print('Note: Starting pysim for legacy SITL.') simargs = [sys.executable, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'pysim/sim_wrapper.py'), '--simin=127.0.0.1:5502', '--simout=127.0.0.1:5501', '--fgout=127.0.0.1:5503',

Is this meant to be supported? Is there any way to compile the binaries to allow this argument?

hamishwillee commented 8 years ago

Yes, not supported for the current binaries. The Ardupilot documentation states:

FlightGear support is currently only in master (January 2016). It should appear in the next versions of the vehicle codelines (not present on current versions: Copter 3.3, Plane 3.4, Rover 2.5).

hamishwillee commented 8 years ago

It would be good to get a rebuild to latest platforms @mrpollo ?

jainakshay91 commented 8 years ago

@hamishwillee so at the moment there is no method to visualize the simulations with dronekit-sitl?

hamishwillee commented 8 years ago

@jainakshay91 If you only want 2d then you can "visualise" the path in your GCS. If you do want 3D as per flightgear then you can't use DK sitl existing builds. If you wanted these with DK-SITL you'd have to build your own binaries (this is perfectly possible) but if visualisation is your main point you might as well just do a native build without DK-SITL.