ArduPilot/MissionPlanner

MissionPlanner

Website : http://ardupilot.org/planner/

Forum : http://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/ground-control-software/mission-planner

Download latest stable version : http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner-latest.msi

Changelog : https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt

License : https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/blob/master/COPYING.txt

How to compile

On Windows (Recommended)

1. Install software

Main requirements

Currently, Mission Planner needs:

Visual Studio 2022

IDE

Visual Studio Community

To compile Mission Planner, we recommend using Visual Studio. You can download Visual Studio Community from the Visual Studio Download page.

Visual Studio is a comprehensive suite with built-in Git support, but it can be overwhelming due to its complexity. To streamline the installation process, you can customize your installation by selecting the relevant "Workloads" and "Individual components" based on your software development needs.

To simplify this selection process, we have provided a configuration file that specifies the components required for MissionPlanner development. Here's how you can use it:

1. Go to "More" in the Visual Studio installer.
2. Select "Import configuration."
3. Use the following file: vs2022.vsconfig.

By following these steps, you'll have the necessary components installed and ready for Mission Planner development.

VSCode

Currently VSCode with C# plugin is able to parse the code but cannot build.

2. Get the code

If you get Visual Studio Community, you should be able to use Git from the IDE. Clone https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner.git to get the full code.

In case you didn't install an IDE, you will need to manually install Git. Please follow instruction in https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/where-to-get-the-code.html#downloading-the-code-using-git

Open a git bash terminal in the MissionPlanner directory and type, "git submodule update --init" to download all submodules

3. Build

To build the code:

• Open MissionPlanner.sln with Visual Studio
• From the Build menu, select "Build MissionPlanner"

On other systems

Building Mission Planner on other systems isn't support currently.

Launching Mission Planner on other system

Mission Planner is available for Android via the Play Store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.michaeloborne.MissionPlanner Mission Planner can be used with Mono on Linux systems. Be aware that not all functions are available on Linux. Native MacOS and iOS support is experimental and not recommended for inexperienced users. https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/releases/tag/osxlatest For MacOS users it is recommended to use Mission Planner for Windows via Boot Camp or Parallels (or equivalent).

On Linux

Requirements

Those instructions were tested on Ubuntu 20.04. Please install Mono, either :

• sudo apt install mono-complete mono-runtime libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-winforms4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.0-cil libmono-system-management4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil

Launching

• Get the lastest zipped version of Mission Planner here : https://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner-latest.zip
• Unzip in the directory you want
• Go into the directory
• run with mono MissionPlanner.exe

You can debug Mission Planner on Mono with MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono MissionPlanner.exe

External Services Used

Offline Use - No Internet

on linux this is in /home//.local/share/Mission Planner/

Offline Data Supported

Elevation

• SRTM Cache
• GeoTiff's in WGS84/EGM96
• DTED

Images

• Map Cache
• WMS
• WMTS
• GDAL

Paths used - Default

on linux this is in /home//.local/share/Mission Planner/

CA Cert

A CA cert is installed to the root store and used to sign the windows serial port drivers, and is installed as part of the MSI install.