mavlink/qgroundcontrol — Issue #30: Allow REQUEST_DATA_STREAM to also address individual streams
Author: Susurrus
Created: 2012-02-08 02:25:27+00:00
State: open

Right now MAVLINK_MSG_ID_REQUEST_DATA_STREAM is designed to enabled/disable groups of messages and this is reflected within the QGC interface. It would be nice if this message was abstracted so that it only specified inidividual messages. The grouping of these messages can either be handled via an additional message (maybe MAVLINK_MSG_ID_REQUEST_DATA_STREAM_GROUP) or handled by the groundstation itself.

If this is handled natively in QGC through the UI then you can do things such as save a bunch of different groupings of messages that are useful for debugging different things and then switch between them as desired without having to alter the autopilot itself. The fine-grained control of data stream transmission would probably be a large benefit.