Create library to communicate directly to plane

[Bradley Bridges]

Create a library called core/mavlink that handles communication to the plane over the MAVLink protocol, as opposed to having an external program send in data.

node-mavlink would be a perfect fit for this use, as this library that needs to be made should essentially be a large wrapper around this.

Most likely this class should extend EventEmitter and should emit events when new information arises. Events would be handled like this:

let plane = /* The MAVLink class created */;

// Using the Telemetry class from util/types/telemetry
plane.on('telemetry', (telemetry) => {
    // Do stuff here
});

// A similar mission class would be used
plane.on('mission', (mission) => {
    // Do stuff here
});

A full list of events would include things such as:

• telemetry
• mission
• waypoint
• mode
• connect
• close
• receive
• send
• error

Some methods that would need to be accessible from the outside would be:

• setTelemetryRate(rate)
• getTelemetryRate()
• connect(<some connection parameters>)
• disconnect()

Other possible features are handling dropped messages and uploading missions to the plane. If possible these methods would also be convenient:

• setMission(mission)
• setWaypoint(number)
• setMode(mode)

The features that can be added are definitely not limited here, these are just what come to mind. More things can be found from reading the official MAVLink specification.

[Bradley Bridges]

The pigeon library is intended to do this, so this is no longer needed.