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Can mavproxy listen for a TCP connection on master?

Posted by Nicholas Pilkington on July 22, 2013 at 7:14pm

When specifying the --master parameter in mavproxy I've noticed that using UDP it will listen for packets whereas using TCP is will try and make a connection.  

Is there any way to get mavproxy to listen for a TCP connection from anther machine that will connect and send out mavlink packets?

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  • Nicholas Pilkington July 23, 2013 at 3:02pm

    Found the problem, I hadn't specified an --out to mavproxy so there was no connection to listen for a HEARTBEAT on. Silly. 

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    Andrew Tridgell July 22, 2013 at 7:28pm

    Hi Nicholas,

    Currently mavproxy doesn't support that. You could easily add it by patching mavutil.py in pymavlink, but I'm curious why you want this? Using a TCP connection to an aircraft would be a very bad idea, as TCP handles packet loss very badly, and will clag up for a long time on significant packet loss.

    Cheers, Tridge

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