No attribute in MAVSDK for battery current

[ghost]

Hi, I tried to access battery current information using MAVSDK (python version 1.4.5). My flight controller is producing mavlink messages BATTERY_STATUS (147) and SYS_STATUS(1), so the information exists. I asked on MAVSDK official discord and it seems like there is no MAVSDK attribute to store that information at the moment.

Note: Class Battery under telemetry.py seems like a natural place to add such attribute.

[JonasVautherin]

It seems like it is upstream: https://github.com/mavlink/MAVSDK-Proto/blob/main/protos/telemetry/telemetry.proto#L599.

Unfortunately it is not yet in MAVSDK v1.4.x. It will come with MAVSDK v2, which has not been released yet. I fear the only way right now is to build mavsdk_server and run MAVSDK-Python manually with latest main branches.

[ghost]

Hi @JonasVautherin and thank you for responding.

I will try that approach then 👍 . Any rough idea when MAVSDK v2 will be released?

[julianoes]

Any rough idea when MAVSDK v2 will be released?

I hope this year in a few weeks, surely this year. See todos here: mavlink/MAVSDK#2002 I'm just working on this in my spare time 🤷‍♂️.