Very happy, got the APM up in the air first time flying missions and downlinking telemetry.
Michael Oborne, splendid job on the ground station!
So, now some noob questions:
- what are the red, black, orange and green straight lines?
- Under where it says "Auto" or "FBW-A", it says something like "106>4". What is that?
- When in auto mode, how can I see what the next waypoint target is? Or what the APM is trying to do?
- Is there a debug mode, where the APM is saying (more verbosely) what it's currently trying to do? (maybe have to rebuild from source to get this)
- what happens when the final step in the mission is completed?
Many TIA!
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- what are the red, black, orange and green straight lines?
See here for an explanation of the colored lines and HUD indicators ;)
- Under where it says "Auto" or "FBW-A", it says something like "106>4". What is that?
See here for an explanation of the HUD indicators ;)
- When in auto mode, how can I see what the next waypoint target is? Or what the APM is trying to do?
When you get your answers to the above, you will not need a reply to this one *wink*
- Is there a debug mode, where the APM is saying (more verbosely) what it's currently trying to do? (maybe have to rebuild from source to get this)
There is a debug mode in MP, help, debug console. It requires a restart of MP, and I do not believe it is what you are asking for. The limit you will run into is MAVLink, which is a standard protocol, and used for telemetry. So unless you/we expand on that protocol, possibly breaking compatibility w/ the many other ground stations, I am not certain it is easily done.
- what happens when the final step in the mission is completed?
I believe it should loiter, unless you have told it to do something else. But I have never flown ArduPilot on Auto so please RTFM and do not rely too much on my n00b answers ;)
- is there a way to sniff the mavlink messages in read time?
use a virtual com port and retransmit to the one used by MP, or try QGControl which has options to display in real time ... but I don't know, off the top of my head, any tools that currently decode the messages in real time. All the code is available, so we could do it.... and you might be able to talk Michael into a feature request... or someone here to write a "shim" that packages up the virtual com port and displays/decodes the messages in real time, maybe. Sorry, the real answer is "I don't know" ;)
Another question:
- is there a way to sniff the mavlink messages in real time?