by Max » Thu May 05, 2016 8:32 pm
Hi Christof, glad you like it!
Yes as Larry says, just use a separate serial connection for telemetry data (BT, wired FTDI, XBee, whatever... I mostly use an M4 on an N4 w/on-board BT).
Even though jMAVSim has a Mavlink pass-through feature (eg. to forward all messages to QGC via UDP), it's not useful for AQ because the HILS connection type doesn't send any of the normal telemetry data, only what is required for a stable HILS. Actually using Mavlink for HILS at all is a temporary convenience and will probably be replaced by a more efficient protocol in the future.
The fact that we have to reverse the mag. incl. setting in AQ is a bit absurd... I wish there was an easy way to change that requirement at this point. Only clean way I can think of would be replacing the existing param with a new one, but that's still far from ideal.
Cheers,
-Max