Dronecode Foundation

MAVSDK gRPC API

MAVSDK is the Dronecode Foundation's programmable interface to any MAVLink vehicle, and the only surface in the estate with a full machine-readable contract. 38 protobuf services and 387 RPCs cover arming and flight control, missions, geofencing, offboard setpoints, camera and gimbal, parameters, FTP, logs, failure injection and 59 telemetry subscriptions. It is delivered as mavsdk_server, a binary the consumer runs on their own machine or companion computer — there is no Dronecode-hosted endpoint, no authentication and no key.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: dronecode:mavsdk
name: MAVSDK gRPC API
description: MAVSDK is the Dronecode Foundation's programmable interface to any MAVLink vehicle, and the
  only surface in the estate with a full machine-readable contract. 38 protobuf services and 387 RPCs
  cover arming and flight control, missions, geofencing, offboard setpoints, camera and gimbal, parameters,
  FTP, logs, failure injection and 59 telemetry subscriptions. It is delivered as mavsdk_server, a binary
  the consumer runs on their own machine or companion computer — there is no Dronecode-hosted endpoint,
  no authentication and no key.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dronecode.png
humanURL: https://mavsdk.mavlink.io/main/en/
tags:
- Drones
- UAV
- gRPC
- Robotics
properties:
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/_index.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/dronecode-mavsdk-action.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/dronecode-mavsdk-mission.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/dronecode-mavsdk-telemetry.proto
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/dronecode-problem-types.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://mavsdk.mavlink.io/main/en/cpp/api_reference/index.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mavsdk.mavlink.io/main/en/
- type: Quickstart
  url: https://mavsdk.mavlink.io/main/en/python/quickstart.html
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/mavlink/MAVSDK
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/mavlink/MAVSDK-Proto