I'm working to get an SITL build of ArduCopter to use in some ground station development work, and I've had a number of difficulties, along the lines of:
-- SITL only built successfully for some branches (worked for 2.8.1, not 2.9 or 2.9.1).
-- MAVProxy hangs/becomes unresponsive after any console command is issued.
I'm running OSX 10.8.2, and actually updated to a clean install of that version after running into similar difficulties with 10.7.5.
My question: is anyone using OSX who is actively doing ArduCopter development, in particular, anyone using the SITL with MAVProxy? If so, I'd love to help close the gap between the sort of "out of the box" experience I've had and an actual working system (updating docs, etc). I can get into the gory details if, indeed, others are having success with this setup.
If not, then I'll switch to Linux and avoid these issues.
thanks!
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I identified the issue causing MAVProxy to be unresponsive -- I wasn't specifying TCP connection, as the documentation states, and MAVProxy defaults to UDP. So for the record, I needed to RTFMC (carefully):
python mavproxy.py --master=tcp:127.0.0.1:5760