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Does anyone have a Dashware profile/tool for APM:Copter or APM:Plane?

Posted by Scott Pritchett on March 8, 2015 at 5:09pm

Dashware looks to be a pretty nice tool for overlaying telemetry/log data onto HD video.

It was recently acquired by GoPro and is now free to download and use.

http://www.dashware.net/dashware-download/

It doesn't have built-in support for APM log files for some reason, only through something called "flytrex".

There are a few videos on youtube where people say they used their own method to convert APM logs to Dashware data (it can operate on .CSV files) so It should be pretty straight-forward, but I don't want to spend a bunch of time on this if someone else already has a tool or script.

Please share if you know where such a thing is available.

Thanks!

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- - Pascal P. > Mirko February 14, 2016 at 5:08am
    
    this one is not working, same error as electronics inc below, for sure it is a release issue, and the parser should work with older release of APM logs. Too bad.
electrolics inc February 10, 2016 at 3:12am

I was able to use the gpx file created by mission planner as an input to dashware, it worked but has very less info, just speed, altitude and total flight pattern, I've seen videos on youtube where people have managed to put more info from the dataflash log or bin file
- Mirko > electrolics inc February 10, 2016 at 6:32am
  
  I've found this:
  
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10585843/_temp/ArducopterFlashl...
  
  seems to work (but only with older logs).
  
  Here the page where i've found the script:
  
  http://fpv-community.de/showthread.php?47247-Dataflash-logs
  - electrolics inc > Mirko February 11, 2016 at 2:11am
    
    I also found this but don't know how to use it
    
    https://github.com/OverloadUT/apm-dashware
    
    any help to run this code would be highly appreciated
    
    Thanks in advance
    
    OverloadUT/apm-dashware
    
    Collection of scripts for getting APM flight logs to play nice with Dashware - OverloadUT/apm-dashware
  - electrolics inc > Mirko February 11, 2016 at 1:56am
    
    thanks but, yeah this isn't working for recent data logs of Pixhawk, can anyone please modify this to work with newer logs
Scott Pritchett February 8, 2016 at 10:11am

I haven't tried it, but I think this may be just what we're looking for:

https://github.com/OverloadUT/apm-dashware

OverloadUT/apm-dashware

Collection of scripts for getting APM flight logs to play nice with Dashware - OverloadUT/apm-dashware
- Mirko > Scott Pritchett February 8, 2016 at 10:17am
  
  tried...but it give an error
  
  python sdlog2_dump2.py "logapm.bin" -f test.csv -m GPS -m ATT -m NTUN -m CTUN -m MODE -m CURR
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sdlog2_dump2.py", line 154, in
  _main()
  File "sdlog2_dump2.py", line 79, in _main
  (columns, rows) = parser.process(filename)
  File "sdlog2parser.py", line 116, in process
  self.__parseMsgDescr()
  File "
  
  sdlog2parser.py", line 187, in __parseMsgDescr
  raise Exception("Unsupported format char: %s in message %s (%i)" % (c, msg_name, msg_type))
  Exception: Unsupported format char: d in message GRAW (171)
  - Scott Pritchett > Mirko February 9, 2016 at 7:56am
    
    Try a log file instead of a bin.
    - Mirko > Scott Pritchett February 10, 2016 at 3:05am
      
      Using a .log file, the output is an empty file :(
Mirko February 5, 2016 at 2:37pm

me too....