Cant change flight mode on for drone kit sitl

[Pilotben]

Hi, I am new to DroneKit and I just downloaded DroneKit and MAVProxy to my Mac but I have an issue where I initialise a SITL drone and then open mavproxy and connect to it and I can see a connection is established however none of the commands I type in the MAVProxy terminal are executed please see attached picture. I would really appreciate any help on this topic

[itzmejawad]

I am experiencing the same problem like yours in Ubuntu... even i downgraded and checked with different OS distributions but nothing works

[thianesh]

I too

[itzmejawad]

Hi @Pilotben @thianesh

As mentioned by @zarar7576 in #105

I have downloaded https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-sitl/files/3514761/firmware_36.zip

once downloaded copy the contents to ~/.dronekit/sitl/copter-3.3 directory and rename the "copter_36" file to "apm"

and also change the permission of that folder by doing
sudo chmod -R a+rwx ~/.dronekit/sitl/copter-3.3/

it will work

the mode change problem will be solved

[Mettikodeva]

Hi @Pilotben @thianesh

As mentioned by @zarar7576 in #105

I have downloaded https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-sitl/files/3514761/firmware_36.zip

once downloaded copy the contents to ~/.dronekit/sitl/copter-3.3 directory and rename the "copter_36" file to "apm"

and also change the permission of that folder by doing sudo chmod -R a+rwx ~/.dronekit/sitl/copter-3.3/

it will work

the mode change problem will be solved

how to do this in windows?
thanks

[itzmejawad]

Hi @Pilotben @thianesh
As mentioned by @zarar7576 in #105
I have downloaded https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-sitl/files/3514761/firmware_36.zip
once downloaded copy the contents to ~/.dronekit/sitl/copter-3.3 directory and rename the "copter_36" file to "apm"
and also change the permission of that folder by doing sudo chmod -R a+rwx ~/.dronekit/sitl/copter-3.3/
it will work
the mode change problem will be solved

how to do this in windows? thanks

https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/sitl-native-on-windows.html

Otherwise.... Try Mission Planner Simulator... That should solve ur issues