Dronecode Foundation

MAVLink Protocol

MAVLink is the message-level interoperability standard for drones, and the Dronecode Foundation publishes it. The contract is the dialect XML — 19 files including common.xml, standard.xml, minimal.xml and development.xml — from which every language binding is generated, plus five JSON Schemas defining how a component describes its own parameters, actuators and peripherals. The dialect XML carries a machine-readable deprecation element with `since` and `replaced_by`.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: dronecode:mavlink
name: MAVLink Protocol
description: MAVLink is the message-level interoperability standard for drones, and the Dronecode Foundation
  publishes it. The contract is the dialect XML — 19 files including common.xml, standard.xml, minimal.xml
  and development.xml — from which every language binding is generated, plus five JSON Schemas defining
  how a component describes its own parameters, actuators and peripherals. The dialect XML carries a machine-readable
  deprecation element with `since` and `replaced_by`.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dronecode.png
humanURL: https://mavlink.io/en/
tags:
- Drones
- UAV
- MAVLink
- Standards
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mavlink.io/en/
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-general.schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-parameter.schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-actuators.schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-peripherals.schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/dronecode-mavlink-component-metadata-translation.schema.json
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink