Sending mavlink message to show text on mission planner

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Hi,

I’m using pymavlink to connect to ArduCopter. My python code runs on a raspberry pi connected (by serial) to a Pixhawk running ArduCopter (ver 4.5.7). I’m able to see messages and send commands to the Pixhawk. I’m looking for a way in my python code to send text over mavlink to the Pixhawk that will also show on a remote mission planner that is connected to the same Pixhawk copter. In the same place that other messages like “DISARMMED” / “ARMED” or other error messages are shown.

I tried this line of code:
the_connection.mav.statustext_send(mavutil.mavlink.MAV_SEVERITY_CRITICAL,b"hellow world")

I don’t get any error message in the python code but I also don’t see my text on mission planner.

Any idea how this can be done?

Thanks,
Raz