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Parker McDonnell replied to Parker McDonnell's discussion Anyone had success creating custom MAVLink messages for Qgroundcontrol?
"Great success!  

I was finally able to add my custom mavlink packets to Qgroundcontrol.  Apparently Qgroundcontrol will not respond to any valid packets until it receives a heartbeat message from whatever device it is communicating with.  I was…"
May 8, 2013
Parker McDonnell replied to Dean Walker's discussion 3DR limited Range?
"A few possibilities come to mind...it may be possible your TX power setting is really low, your data rate is really high or a combination of both.

Have you configured the radios in the APM planner or with the 3DR Radio configure application?…"
May 7, 2013
Parker McDonnell replied to Parker McDonnell's discussion Anyone had success creating custom MAVLink messages for Qgroundcontrol?
"Update:  I have made some progress on this issue.  I had success getting Qgroundcontrol to compile with the inclusion of my custom mavlink message.  The issue I was running into was caused by not including the common message set in my XML…"
May 2, 2013
Parker McDonnell posted a discussion
Hi All,I was just wondering if anyone out there has had success building custom mavlink messages into QGC?  I have been working on customizing QGC for a while but I am having trouble.  I was able to create an XML file that contains the message…
Apr 28, 2013