New ArduPilot methodic configurator GUI

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Hi @amilcarlucas , seems a great tool , thanks!
How can we test it to give you feedback? :slight_smile:

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wow, looks great.

its to compare between 2 params files?

to setup firts time flight controller?

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No, it directly compares the parameters on the flight controller with parameters on file(s)

It is to semi-automate the Methodic tuning Blog post, it replaces mission planner and a text editor.

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Does it save new files, or just edit the existing ones?

Is there a way to try it?

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It edit the existing ones

Start out by making a copy of all files into a new directory as explained in the blog post

Them use the gui , after that you can still compare the two directories if you want

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Amilcar are you referring to this post?

I can’t find the location to download the configurator GUI from. Could you provide a link?

In any case, the core question I’d like to ask (since I can’t find the source code) is which GUI Python framework you used?

Thanks!

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It is under development and the code is not available yet. The backend is separated from the frontend.
The existing frontend is tkinter but it can easily be replaced with something else

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If you want some feature implemented, now is the best time to ask.

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Really happy to see this taking shape. I firmly believe the way forward should be web apps. With proper permissions from the user, the browser can do a lot with connected peripheral hardware, and you can offload nearly all tasks to the client browser to keep the server backend pretty light.

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Yes @Yuri_Rage that is the plan. First a python application, then a client side web application with serial/USB permissions and local filesystem access. The application is currently a filesystem backend, a serial communication backend and a tkinter frontend. All currently in python, using SCM concepts, the application is configured using :

  • an apm.pdef.xml file
  • a 00_default.param file extracted from a .bin log file
  • a .JSON file with documentation URL links
  • the intermediate parameter files contained in the Blog post
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Hi @amilcarlucas , very interesting , as soon as it is ready let me know , and I will be very interested to give you feedback on its operation

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The new software for configuration automation is available:

feedback is welcome

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@amilcarlucas
I was going to install the configurator you made but have ran into this error on windows 11
“C:\Users\XXX\Documents\MethodicConfigurator>pip install ardupilot_methodic_configurator
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ardupilot_methodic_configurator (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for ardupilot_methodic_configurator”
I am not entirely sure how to proceed, do you have any clues?

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Yes, that is expected.

Use git clone instead

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I did use git clone to clone it (C:\Users\xxxx\Documents>git clone GitHub - ArduPilot/MethodicConfigurator: A clear ArduPilot configuration sequence)

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Then just run it, you do not need the pip install

Please re-read the README.md carefully

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Thank you for this Amilcarlucas will download later or first thing in morning my half a brain cell will be overloaded and blow the main fuse or maybe I should dilute said half a cell with some of the magic Scotch Whisky only jesting

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did you possibly change the readme Some users can not read, so remove this. It should be re-added later · ArduPilot/MethodicConfigurator@e712aa8 · GitHub
as I was following what you posted yet got those results, looks like they are more clear now!

@amilcarlucas

following the new instructions I get the following error on windows 11:
C:\Users\xx\Documents\MethodicConfigurator>python3 ardupilot_methodic_configurator.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\xx\Documents\MethodicConfigurator\ardupilot_methodic_configurator.py”, line 24, in
from backend_flightcontroller import FlightController
File “C:\Users\xx\Documents\MethodicConfigurator\backend_flightcontroller.py”, line 82, in
class FlightController:
File “C:\Users\xx\Documents\MethodicConfigurator\backend_flightcontroller.py”, line 165, in FlightController
def create_connection_with_retry(self, progress_callback, retries: int = 3, timeout: int = 5) → mavutil.mavlink_connection:
NameError: name ‘mavutil’ is not defined

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please install pymavlink:

python -m pip install  pymavlink argparse pyserial typing
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@amilcarlucas

I have deleted all the old stuff and tried the newest version but am still running into the following errors:

C:\Users\xx>cd documents
C:\Users\xx\Documents>git clone GitHub - ArduPilot/MethodicConfigurator: A clear ArduPilot configuration sequence
Cloning into ‘MethodicConfigurator’…
remote: Enumerating objects: 278, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (278/278), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (138/138), done.
remote: Total 278 (delta 149), reused 258 (delta 129), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (278/278), 918.17 KiB | 3.22 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (149/149), done.
C:\Users\xx\Documents>cd MethodicConfigurator
C:\Users\xx\Documents\MethodicConfigurator>python3 -m pip install pymavlink tkinter argparse logging pyserial pyusb typing json os re webbrowser
Collecting pymavlink
Downloading pymavlink-2.4.41-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.2 kB)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tkinter (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tkinter