Ignis Operations Manual
Drone Amplified
7.8.1 MAVLink Communications
Figure 7.8.1 Mavlink communications
This screen is useful to check what devices the app is currently receiving MAVLink
messages from. You can verify that the gimbal, camera, and flight controller are all
connected and functioning.
This screen also shows how many bytes per second are being transmitted. If your radio's
MAVLink interface is a 57600 baud serial cable (as the case with the Herelink), then that'll
constrain your MAVLink communications to at most 5760 bytes per second. You can add up
the bytes/second of all of the devices the app is hearing messages from to verify that you're
under that limit.
The packet reception percentage is based on the sequence numbers of the messages the
app is receiving. However, some devices have a bug where they'll send different kinds of
messages with different sequences of sequence numbers. I show the last sequence number
received, so if the message rate is low, you can tell that's what's happening.
If you expand each device, you can see a list of all the different kinds of messages the
app has received from this device. The left column is how many the app has received. The
right column is the MAVLink message type, with the message ID in parenthesis. If the
message is a command, it also contains what the command is, the command ID in
parenthesis, and the target device of the command.
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