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Permalink Reply by Trent on August 13, 2011 at 3:09am

i know in the flight data box it has a button "restart mission" but that's for telemetry.

 

If you dont have telemetry then im not sure how you would accomplish this.

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Permalink Reply by wilsonj on August 13, 2011 at 1:16pm

Hi Trent, thanks for your reply.

I was sure there was an option in the old ardupilot to allow this. At the least there was an option to restart the AP by toggling the mode switch 3 times.

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Permalink Reply by Andre S on August 20, 2011 at 10:07pm

I was trying the same but either it was removed or I didn't get the timing right. Now planning to add some extra code that would reset the waypoint index depending on one of the other channel inputs. Not sure how tricky this is actually but let's see.

Has anybody of you found a neat solution (besides installing telemetry:-)?

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Permalink Reply by Andre S on August 21, 2011 at 10:37am

So, a slightly hacky solution which at least appears to be working on my workbench is to add a couple of lines to process_next_command() inside commands_process.pde, something along the lines of

 

if (g.waypoint_index > g.waypoint_total) {

   if(g.rc_7.radio_in > 1800) {

       SendDebug_P("MSG RESTARTING MISSION");

       change_command(1);

}}

 

where channel rc7 is set to a switch on the remote. This is with APM release 2.22.

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