Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Setup a Virtual Machine (VM) and set the internet connection as "Bridged". Open a terminal and install dronekit, dronekit-sitl and mavproxy using pip

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NOTE: THIS SETUP IS OBSOLETE. IN ORDER TO INSTALL DRONEKIT DOWNLOAD THE REPOSITORY AND INSTALL FROM SOURCE:
sudo python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install


dronekit--sitl is obsolete
Check this video for running sitl with Mission Planner youtu.be/o6o5IcTAwgM

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pip install mavproxy
pip install dronekit
pip install dronekit-sitl

Start the simulator with
dronekit-sitl copter

Share the connection with the localhost and external UDP (as your phone for example)
mavproxy.py --master tcp:127.0.0.1:5760 --out:127.0.0.1:14551 --out udp:(ip address):14550

On windows, open Mission Planner (or in your phone open Tower) and connect the UDP port 14550

In Linux, write your script and connect the vehicle to "udp:127.0.0.1:14550"

Enjoy

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For more information on how to setup dronekit and other examples: python.dronekit.io

The python code is available at: github.com/dronekit/dronekit-python/blob/master/examples/simple_goto/simple_goto.py

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