mavlink/mavlink — pull request #82 by hsteinhaus (2012-12-16 20:58:45+00:00)
Title: Wireshark for MAVLink debugging

I am struggeling with some strange link layer problems with Ardupilot currently and was really missing some tool to trace and pretty-print MAVLink communication on the byte level.

Finally I wrote two small tools to make Wireshark deal with MAVLink. The first tool is a stream packetizer and CRC checker (first commit) implemented in Python. The second part is an extension for mavgen.py, that generates a LUA-based protocol dissector for wireshark from the MAVLink XML definitions (lang=wlua).

Here you can find a screenshot: http://steinhaus-home.de/mavshark.png

Would be nice if you could merge the tools, I have seen some people asking for Wireshark support on diydrones.com.

Regards,
Holger