How to access NuttX Shell from terminal Pixhawk v1/v2

Onix_Tarrats · March 9, 2017, 8:43pm

Hello, I’m trying to access the NSH on the pixhawk v1 without using the Mission Planner console,and I do not have an FTDI cable, is there any way to access it directly from terminal?

dagar · March 10, 2017, 3:03am

PX4 firmware has a python script for shell access over mavlink.

github.com

PX4/Firmware/blob/master/Tools/mavlink_shell.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Open a shell over MAVLink.

@author: Beat Kueng (beat-kueng@gmx.net)
"""


from __future__ import print_function
import sys, select
import termios
from timeit import default_timer as timer

try:
    from pymavlink import mavutil
    import serial
except:
    print("Failed to import pymavlink.")
    print("You may need to install it with 'pip install pymavlink pyserial'")

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./Tools/mavlink_shell.py