Mavlink_editor

GUI for defining Mavlink messages.

Mavlink messages are defined in an XML file, from which the C structures and helper functions are then generated. To find out more, see the related wiki page in the Skyward Wiki.

This repo contains:

• The GUI editor (app/)
• The code generator script (pymavlink/)
• The shared repo where you can find the generated structures and the original XML (mavlink_skyward_lib/)

Dependencies: Git and Python2 with pip

Edit the XML

• Clone this repo git clone --recursive http://www.github.com/skyward-er/Mavlink_editor.git
• Optionally, create a virtual env
  • virtualenv env
  • source env/bin/activate
• cd Mavlink_editor and pip install -r requirements.txt
• python run.py and copy the prompted IP address in your browser

Generate C code

Once you finished editing, you can click on the generate button in the Home page. This will modify the content of mavlink_skyward_lib/mavlin_lib

To commit the changes:

• In the mavlink_skyward_lib/ submodule, git checkout master and the commit the changes.
• In the main folder, git submodule update --remote --merge and commit from there too