DroneCAN ESC telemetry

Hardware CAN Devices
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I am currently using the Zubax Komar ESC over DroneCAN. So far it works great.

We are wanting to leverage all the available telemetry data to implement some hardware monitoring.

In mission planner I am seeing ESC telemetry data for Voltage, Current, ESC Temp and RPM.

There is a whole host of other information that is available from the ESC including Motor Temp, torque, status etc.

Trying to understand what data is available in DroneCAN messages and then get my head around what gets translated into MAVlink messages. Does anyone have any idea if it is possible to add the extra messages, or find them if they are already hiding somwhere? Would be so great to have ESC temp and motor temp both available in the GCS

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Did you ever make any progress on this?

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due to cost we decided not to use these ESCs so did not pursue the additional telemetry. I feel like it’s something that should be in dronecan so perhaps it will come over time.

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