Is there a way to connect a transmitter to the arduplane process being run as SITL ?
Found the answer to my own question. You can connect it via MAVLink. Of course !
Using a joystick
It can be useful to use a joystick for input in SITL. The joystick can be a real RC transmitter with a USB dongle for the trainer port, or something like the RealFlight interlink controller or a wide range of other joystick devices.
Before you use the joystick support you need to remove a debug statements from the python-pygame joystick driver on Linux. If you don’t then you will see lots of debug output like this:
SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:-32768:
To remove this debug line run this command:
sudo sed -i ‘s/SDL_JoystickGetAxis value/\x00DL_JoystickGetAxis value/g’ /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygame/joystick.so
note that this needs to be one long command line. Ignore the line wrapping in the wiki.
Then to use the joystick run:
module load joystick
If you want to add support for a new joystick type then you need to edit the mavproxy_joystick module
Source: https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/using-sitl-for-ardupilot-testing.html
Thank you, documentation team !
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