Overview

Dronekit-python is a library Autonomy uses to send MAVLink messages between the drone and the ground station. However, the library is outdated and incompatible with Python 3.10 and above. Autonomy made a fork from their GitHub source code, which is updated. It is meant to be used as a submodule to replace the dronekit library.

Repository: https://github.com/UWARG/dronekit

Software

Setup

1. Navigate to a directory in the project where you want to install this library/module.

2. Run git submodule add -b WARG-minimal https://github.com/UWARG/dronekit.

   1. -b WARG-minimal selects the branch (this branch includes only the core components)

Usage

1. Run git submodule init --recursive in your project root

2. Run git submodule update --remote --recursive in your project root

3. Copy the contents from requirements-copyme.txt to the requirements.txt of the project that will use dronekit.

4. Install the library dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt.

5. Import the library the same way as you would import your own modules in a python project.

Development

Please note that the master branch is the default branch which tracks the master branch from https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-python. Do not edit this branch, it will only be used for rebasing during maintenance.

All development should be done in the branch WARG-minimal, which will be mostly maintenance efforts.