DroneKit Connection

[lroberts]

Hello,

I am working with a Solo 3DR drone and an Intel Edison breakout board. I have MAVProxy communication working between the Edison and the drone. However, I cannot establish DroneKit connection for some reason. It seems I need this connection for programs to connect with my drone. Is this correct? I am new to this.

Here is my process:

I run a MAVProxy command from Edison: mavproxy.py --master=/dev/ttyUSB0
then, I run: api start vehicle_state.py --connect /dev/ttyUSB0

I get the error:

Exception in APIThread-2 Timeout in initializing connection

I know there are other forum posts out there about this - I've looked at many of them! - but I can't seem to solve my problem. I am using pymavlink v1.1.73, and I installed that from the python website.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

 

[PMartinez]

Try in dronekit/dronekit-android or dronekit/dronekit-python. We usually answer there any dronekit problem there.