Mavproxy as exclusively proxy, no commands

Ground Control Software MAVProxy
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Hello,

I am trying to test some new ground control software I have been working on. I’ve tested thoroughly using SITLs and now I want to try it outside on real hardware.

For this test, I want to use MavProxy with two outs, one out for my GCS and another for mission planner. However, I want my GCS software to be the only one sending anything back to the drone though MavProxy. This means I need the Mission Planner out to have “set mavfwd false” (I’ve got that part down) and I also want mavproxy itself to send no Mavlink packets to the drone. I think Mavproxy will request parameters etc. to be sent on startup. I don’t want that to happen, I only want Mavproxy to forward mavlink packets to/from my GCS.

Can mavproxy be operated this way or do I need to look somewhere else?

Thanks for any insight!

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@tridge this looks like an interresting application of Mavproxy

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Not sure you can arrange all of that.

But you could try “–continue” on the commandline and “set heartbeat 0”

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We are basically using mavproxy that way since 3-4 years. It works very nicelly, only remember to had set heartbeat 0 in mavinit.scr

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where did you type the “set mavfwd false”?
im using mavproxy with 2 outs, one to mission planner and one for dronekit. i want to enable commands only for dronekit and mavproxy. how do i disable only the 1 out for mission planner?

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You can type it into the MAVProxy console.

MAVProxy can only disable commands from all or none of the outputs.

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@stephendade thank you!