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pymavlink

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    Pymavlink

    This is a python implementation of the MAVLink protocol.

    Documentation

    Please see http://dev.ardupilot.org/ for documentation.

    For realtime discussion please see the pymavlink gitter channel here https://gitter.im/ArduPilot/pymavlink

    Installation

    Recommendation

    Pymavlink is currently a Python 2 package. It is recommended to install and use it with Python 2.

    However an initial Python 3 support is given. The following instructions assume you are using Python 2 and a Debian-based (like Ubuntu) installation.

    Dependencies

    Pymavlink requires 3 dependencies :

    - future : for python 2 and python 3 interoperability (http://python-future.org/)
    - lxml : for checking and parsing xml file (http://lxml.de/installation.html)
    - python-dev : for mavnative

    On linux

    lxml has some additional dependencies that can be installed with your package manager (here with apt-get) :

    sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev
    

    Using pip you can install the required dependencies for pymavlink :

    sudo pip2 install -U future lxml

    The -U parameter allows updating future and lxml version if it is already installed.

    On Windows

    Use pip to install future as for linux. Lxml can be installed with a windows installer from here : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.6.0

    Installation

    For users

    It is recommended to install pymavlink from PyPi with pip, that way dependencies should be auto install by pip.

    sudo pip2 install -U pymavlink

    The -U parameter allow to update pymavlink version if it is already installed.

    For developers

    On the pymavlink directory, you can use :

    sudo MDEF=PATH_TO_message_definitions pip2 install . -v

    The -v parameter will output the installation commands on the terminal. The MDEF usage is require as pip install is done from /tmp directory, so it is necessary to use MDEF variable to point on the message_definitions directory. Use pip should auto install dependencies and allow to keep them up-to-date with pip.

    Or

    sudo python2 setup.py install

    Advance usage

    Please see Pip documentation : https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/

    License


    pymavlink is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later.

    Join the chat at https://gitter.im/ArduPilot/pymavlink