Hi, I’m new at drone programming using Python, and I’m going to make a big project for me: construct and make an autopilot for my own drone. First of all I decided to write some code, which would simulate real drone, to test dronekit module and Mission Planner. I’ve downloaded all necessary modules (dronekit, dronekit-sitl, mavproxy, pymavlink etc.), wrote a script for reaching desired altitude, but I wanted to see simulated drone “in action” in Mission Planner window. I found out, that it’s possible to do using mavproxy. And here I’ve got some problems…
As far as I understood, I have to run command in cmd dronekit-sitl copter=3.3.0. Then in another cmd run mavproxy.py --master.... In all tutorials they got some messages, reaching the point where they can enter commands as MAV> mode GUIDED and so on. Meanwhile I got another messages like:
[main 2022-02-15T18:51:40.589Z] update#setState idle
[main 2022-02-15T18:51:40.663Z] ExtensionHostStarterWorker created
[main 2022-02-15T18:51:42.589Z] Starting extension host with pid 13468 (fork() took 16 ms).
[main 2022-02-15T18:51:42.590Z] ExtensionHostStarterWorker.start() took 18 ms.
Script is working (I use PyCharm and VS Code), altitude increases, but at this moment I can’t connect Mission Planner to display the changes. I want to see where it’s flying, telemetry and so on, but I can’t connect. I am not a specialist in connections and ports, but still tried various commands and variants of it (also those commands, that were suggested in local discussions). Can someone explain, what am I doing wrong or what should I do? It’s necessary for my script and for me to understand the behavior of copter in space.
I’ve also tried to run my script in Mission planner, but it raises an error “no module name dronekit”
PC: Windows 10
Python==3.8.6
Mavproxy==1.8.46
Pymavlink==2.4.8
Dronekit==2.9.2
Dronekit-sitl==3.3.0
wxPython==4.4.1
P.S. Sorry for mistakes in text. It was rather difficult to explain my thoughts understandable enough in English!
Screenshot of all working windows