Establish telemetry link after wwan0 is re-initiated(SOLVED)

Navio / Edge Flight stack
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Hi

I have made cronTab script checking whether or not RPI is online, and if necessary re-connects 4G network.
This is working, but i have one issue after wwan0 network is re-initiated, I’m not receiving APM UDP Telemetry data…

If i do the same test with only using Eth0 and just unplug/plug Ethernet cable, telemetry are instantly received to GCS.
I don’t know what’s happening behind the scene, but it seems like after wwan0 is going down or re-initiated, APM try to send data packets to eth0 even though no Ethernet cable is connected.

  • Is there a way of restart APM UDP stream without killing the main program?
  • Where does the APM UDP stream goes if connection is lost?
  • Is there some kind of re-routing i can do?

Any advice is much appreciated.

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Have a look at mavproxy. It is much more flexible than the APM startup options. You can specify multiple telemetry links for one vehicle and distribute the telemetry through multiple --out statements. You can also start/restart it without touching the APM. I use it like this:

APMCopter-quad -A udp:127.0.0.1:14550

this puts out the telemetry to localhost on port 14550

then I start mavproxy with:

mavproxy.py --master=127.0.0.1:14550 --out=udpin:0.0.0.0:14550 --out=/dev/ttyUSB0,57600

it gets the telemetry from localhost and puts it out over a listening UDP connection to anyone who asks for it (missionplanner UDPCI option) and also uses 3dr radio connected to usb as a backup.

I do not know what happens to UDP telemetry, if the connection is lost. APM displays “connection refused” until mavproxy is started.

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@schuermannsebastian
Thx for the info.
I believe mavproxy requires allot of CPU (based on my previously test with mavproxy), and i cannot afford that, :slight_smile: I need all the juice i can get.

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I think this may work.
If i outputs telemetry to localhost as @schuermannsebastian suggested, then i can use udp_redirect from 127.0.0.1:14550 to GCS_IP:14550. When re-initiated wwan0 i can restart udp_Redirect. This would probably work.
Thx

SOLVED!
I did as described above, worked flawlessly.