mwp Follow Me#

Description#

Since c. May 2023, mwp supports an implementation of INAV's Follow Me.

In order to use this:

There must be an active MSP link with the vehicle
The vehicle must be armed
The vehicle must be in POSHOLD with the GCS NAV mode also asserted.

Under the Edit menu, there is a new option Set FollowMe Point. Until you're armed and in POSHOLD this is not sensitive. Unarmed followme

Now armed, but not POSHOLD (orange Home icon showing), still not sensitive ... Armed followme

Now in POSHOLD. note the green POSHOLD icon ... menu option is sensitive! PH_followme

Clicking the menu option invokes the FollowMe dialog: followme_dialog

The FollowMe desired location is indicated by the second green icon (with the ⨁ symbol). This may be dragged to the required location. An altitude, relative to home may also be set, 0 means don't change altitude.

Once mwp has transmitted the desired location (WP#255), mwp will interrogate the FC for confirmation (WP#254, sic). This is logged, for example:

11:31:38.530919 Special WP#254 (4) 35.772714 140.361790 20m 0°

Caveats#

It's probably 6 years since anyone has used this sort of INAV functionality, so take care. In particular, I'm not sure how well the altitude item works (in the firmware, mwp appears to send the correct data). So start will plenty of altitude and 0 as the altitude setting.

Note also that this has not been flight tested; the images and data tests have been done using the INAV SITL (software in the loop), i.e. running INAV firmware as a desktop application, with fl2sitl as the (trivial) sensor provider and ser2tcp allowing a physical RX/TX to be used with the SITL.

In the event that someone flight tests this, a mwp "stderr" log and a blackbox log would be appreciated.