[SOLVED] Description of new parameters not showing

Ground Control Software Mission Planner
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I defined new parameters following the tutorial (with few modification as we work with g2 now). My new parameters are showing properly in Mission Planner 1.3.52.0, except that I can not see Unit/Range/Description text for my parameters. I am not sure if it concerns Mission Planner which do not load my definitions or if I forgot to include something in ArduPilot side.

I didn’t find any relevant information about that problem so some helps would be really appreciated !

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You will need to recompile MP and point it to the new parameters, or make a PR so that your code gets merged in the official release, after that wait for the next MP release … it will have the new parameter descriptions.

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Thanks I didn’t try to go too deep in MP code, but it gives me the keyword to find my solution. In order to add the description/value and so on, I modified two files:

  • D:\Documents\Mission Planner\ParameterMetaData.xml
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Mission Planner\ParameterMetaDataBackup.xml (loaded only if the first one does not exist)