Weekly Digest (15 December, 2019 - 22 December, 2019)

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Here's the Weekly Digest for PX4/Firmware:

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ISSUES

Last week 21 issues were created.
Of these, 9 issues have been closed and 12 issues are still open.

OPEN ISSUES

💚 #13769 Rover land detection, by ealdaz-seesai
💚 #13767 Rover hold/loiter, by ealdaz-seesai
💚 #13766 Pre-flight check: add parameter to en/disable mag field strength check, by bresch
💚 #13765 need help (pixhawk 2.1 orange cube), by kimjongyoung
💚 #13762 pwm rates can not be set more than 400hz, by feemi
💚 #13761 Navigator: VTOL: enable weather vane in auto mode outside of mission, by sfuhrer
💚 #13759 Bug of "make px4_sitl gazebo", by Miranda-Tian
💚 #13756 make make px4_sitl_rtps fails to find fastrtpsgen in default location, by deb0ch
💚 #13754 LAND commanded but not land., by hyonlim
💚 #13753 New cross-platform PCA9685 driver., by SalimTerryLi
💚 #13752 Kakute F7 - Not saving params, by sevet
💚 #13751 Takeoff not happening when switching mode at the same time as arming, by MaEtUgR

CLOSED ISSUES

❤️ #13768 Added cli check for ism330dlc startup to prevent hardfault, by dinomani
❤️ #13764 Don't sleep in middle of mavlink message reception, by jkflying
❤️ #13763 Fix a couple of flake8 Python warnings, by julianoes
❤️ #13760 Durandal over current not being reported, by davids5
❤️ #13758 Fixes V5 and V5X over current not being reported, by davids5
❤️ #13757 commander: skip all mag checks if SYS_HAS_MAG is 0, by dagar
❤️ #13755 Kakutef7: fix baro startup, by bkueng
❤️ #13750 vscode debug minor improvements, by dagar
❤️ #13749 Debug ekf log replays with gdb in vscode, by kamilritz

LIKED ISSUE

👍 #13759 Bug of "make px4_sitl gazebo", by Miranda-Tian
It received 👍 x1, 😄 x0, 🎉 x0 and ❤️ x0.

NOISY ISSUE

🔈 #13753 New cross-platform PCA9685 driver., by SalimTerryLi
It received 5 comments.

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PULL REQUESTS

Last week, 48 pull requests were created, updated or merged.

UPDATED PULL REQUEST

Last week, 31 pull requests were updated.
💛 #13769 Rover land detection, by ealdaz-seesai
💛 #13767 Rover hold/loiter, by ealdaz-seesai
💛 #13766 Pre-flight check: add parameter to en/disable mag field strength check, by bresch
💛 #13761 Navigator: VTOL: enable weather vane in auto mode outside of mission, by sfuhrer
💛 #13753 New cross-platform PCA9685 driver., by SalimTerryLi
💛 #13747 [WIP] cmake improve NuttX build wrapper dependencies, by dagar
💛 #13734 Fix mission with LAND_START and RTL item, by julianoes
💛 #13729 Support multi vehicle sitl gazebo without ros, by Jaeyoung-Lim
💛 #13711 px4io: schedule a reboot if showing the police lights, by dagar
💛 #13710 Pr move land detector mavlink to airspeed validated, by sfuhrer
💛 #13705 [ECL] Full variance usage of vision data, by kamilritz
💛 #13681 Mavlink: Implemented SET_CAMERA_ZOOM, by dayjaby
💛 #13678 [WIP Do not merge] NXP i.MXRT port of PX4 FMUv5, by davids5
💛 #13613 commander: move more static variables to class, by dagar
💛 #13597 Add Gazebo plane HITL setup, by julianoes
💛 #13596 AutoLineSmoothVel refactoring & bugfixes, 2nd Attempt, by jkflying
💛 #13572 msg: remove gencpp and genmsg submodules; remove gencpp imports, by TSC21
💛 #13549 Notch filter, by bresch
💛 #13089 reduce the use of param_find("XXX"), by BazookaJoe1900
💛 #13075 MAVSDK testing, by julianoes
💛 #12976 Added FileNotFound error code according to new Mavlink FTP specification, by MatejFranceskin
💛 #12970 [WIP]: Mavlink stream check available buffer before doing any work, by dagar
💛 #12969 Mavlink get_free_tx_buf() minor cleanup, by dagar
💛 #12946 VTOL standard: introduce scale for FW control surfaces in hover, by sfuhrer
💛 #12815 Update airspeed.cpp, by fanchuannangang1503
💛 #12809 Use Python 3 everywhere, by julianoes
💛 #12800 uorb top sort statistics list alphabetically, by dagar
💛 #12706 Create 13030_mugin_vtol, by BanthaRage
💛 #12673 Integrate INA226 with PX4, by ItsTimmy
💛 #10525 vmount: support absolute angles, by julianoes
💛 #9029 WIP: Pozyx addition to precision landing, by AndreasAntener

MERGED PULL REQUEST

Last week, 17 pull requests were merged.
💜 #13768 Added cli check for ism330dlc startup to prevent hardfault, by dinomani
💜 #13764 Don't sleep in middle of mavlink message reception, by jkflying
💜 #13763 Fix a couple of flake8 Python warnings, by julianoes
💜 #13760 Durandal over current not being reported, by davids5
💜 #13758 Fixes V5 and V5X over current not being reported, by davids5
💜 #13757 commander: skip all mag checks if SYS_HAS_MAG is 0, by dagar
💜 #13755 Kakutef7: fix baro startup, by bkueng
💜 #13750 vscode debug minor improvements, by dagar
💜 #13749 Debug ekf log replays with gdb in vscode, by kamilritz
💜 #13745 Logger: dynamic number of subscriptions, by bkueng
💜 #13718 fix Windows Subsystem for Linux version of PX4, by lovettchris
💜 #13701 Position Control Refactoring Part 5, by MaEtUgR
💜 #13690 Fix check for negative scaled lat lon on VEHICLE_CMD_DO_REPOSITION , by BazookaJoe1900
💜 #13683 Airframe config for px4vision devkit drone, by Jaeyoung-Lim
💜 #13676 Don't allow arming during a transition, by DavidMackie
💜 #13481 Added support for MAV_CMD_REQUEST_MESSAGE for mavlink streams, by ItsTimmy
💜 #13008 More fixes for Python 3 compatibility, by cclauss

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COMMITS

Last week there were 28 commits.
🛠️ Ddded cli check for ism330dlc startup to prevent hardfault if no options are given. by dinomani
🛠️ Don't sleep in middle of mavlink message reception by jkflying
🛠️ [Fix a couple of flake8 Python warnings (#13763) * Tools: fix flake8 error

• platforms: fix flake8 error

This is just guessed.](a9ca16c) by julianoes
🛠️ [More fixes for Python 3 compatibility (#13008) * More fixes for Python 3 compatibility

• Workaround if the six module is not pip installed

• Lose the semicolons](6dc55f9) by cclauss
  🛠️ holybro_durandal-v1:GPIO_VDD_5V_{HIPOWER|PERIPH}_OC remove Pull up - OC have series 47K by davids5
  🛠️ commander: skip all mag checks if SYS_HAS_MAG is 0 by dagar
  🛠️ PositionControl: isolate skip controller, leave away unnecessary include by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ PositionControl: remove complicated internal control flags by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ PositionControl: remove speed_xy constraint since it's anyways unused by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ ControlMath: refactor thrustToAttitude calculation by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ FlightTasks: refactor NAN initializations, spacing by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ Takeoff: add proper unit test by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ mc_pos_control: adopt to module internal include convention by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ PositionControl: simplify constraint conditions by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ PositionControl: clear setter interface naming, order, description by MaEtUgR
  🛠️ [posix server: switch from fcntl(..., F_SETLK, ...) to flock(...) (fix Windows Subsystem for Linux version of PX4 #13718) - Required for Windows

• Add better diagnostic output in some places.
• close the lock file descriptor where we don't need to keep it open](01818b5) by lovettchris
  🛠️ Remove rescaling Lat and Lon on VEHICLE_CMD relevant to VEHICLE_CMD_DO_REPOSITION and VEHICLE_CMD_NAV_TAKEOFF its done on mavlink_receiver already by BazookaJoe1900
  🛠️ refactor logger: move subscription initialization into separate class by bkueng
  🛠️ Logger: dynamic number of subscriptions Keep a fixed-size array of 250 requested topics on the stack, then allocate an array with LoggerSubscription with the exact required size. by bkueng
  🛠️ refactor logger: reduce required size of WrittenFormats by keeping only recursive topics in there. The rest is checked by looking at previous _subscriptions. Reduces stack size requirements when increasing MAX_TOPICS_NUM. by bkueng
  🛠️ px4_fmu-v5x:GPIO_VDD_5V_{HIPOWER|PERIPH}_nOC remove Pull up - OC have series 47K by davids5
  🛠️ px4_fmu-v5:GPIO_VDD_5V_{HIPOWER|PERIPH}_OC remove Pull up - OC have series 47K by davids5
  🛠️ commander: don't allow arming during VTOL transition by DavidMackie
  🛠️ vscode debug and ekf2 replay improvements - create new px4_sitl_replay config specifically for replay - ekf2 replay don't launch gazebo - add px4_sitl_test cmake variant - px4_sitl_test bring into sync with px4_sitl_default - vscode replace hard coded build path with cmake setting by dagar
  🛠️ kakutef7: fix baro startup The bmp280 is on the expansion bus (that is both internal & external) by bkueng
  🛠️ Added support for MAV_CMD_REQUEST_MESSAGE for mavlink streams by ItsTimmy
  🛠️ [airframes: add config for px4vision devkit drone (Airframe config for px4vision devkit drone #13683) * Added configuration file for Pixhawk Vision

Signed-off-by: RomanBapst [email protected]](4bcdf56) by Jaeyoung-Lim
🛠️ Debug log replays with gdb in vscode by kamilritz

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CONTRIBUTORS

Last week there were 14 contributors.
👤 dinomani
👤 jkflying
👤 julianoes
👤 cclauss
👤 davids5
👤 dagar
👤 MaEtUgR
👤 lovettchris
👤 BazookaJoe1900
👤 bkueng
👤 DavidMackie
👤 ItsTimmy
👤 Jaeyoung-Lim
👤 kamilritz

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STARGAZERS

Last week there were 18 stagazers.
⭐ Tomofiles
⭐ CainHsu
⭐ FricWang
⭐ littleserendipity
⭐ ningh121
⭐ marcusglover
⭐ zhaojiawen1996
⭐ Weibin9u233
⭐ Nomango
⭐ Tshzzz
⭐ kelvintys2
⭐ NameLeSS-93
⭐ Crabor
⭐ yscif
⭐ haigithub
⭐ czstara12
⭐ Oops-s
⭐ engineeror
You all are the stars! 🌟

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RELEASES

Last week there was 1 release.
🚀 v1.10.0 Stable Release v1.10.0

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