Peter Barker

I've adjusted this so that these features remain enabled in SITL. @Ryanf55 there seems to be an undeclared dependency between AP_DDS's extenal odometry support and the visual odometry library; compiling...

> > I've adjusted this so that these features remain enabled in SITL. > > @Ryanf55 there seems to be an undeclared dependency between AP_DDS's extenal odometry support and the...

We chickened out on the AP_ExternalAHRS thing. At this point

> Visual Odometry is quite commonly used. Does this remove it for nearly all boards? Yes - all ChibiOS boards.

> I don't think we should disable visual odometry from the base builds at this point. I think we should look for other areas first with lower impact on users...

See Randy's issue here: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/28210

Closing this one as there was only one candidate library in it, beacon. I've opened a fresh PR for that here: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/30299

``` Board AP_Periph blimp bootloader copter heli iofirmware plane rover sub CubeOrange-periph-heavy * CubeRedPrimary 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 Durandal 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 Hitec-Airspeed...

ASCII is the current answer, I think. Unless you're doing multi-chunk messages (and being generous with your internal buffers when accumulating statustext strings), multi-byte truncation is going to be *nasty*....

On Wed, 29 Oct 2025, Hamish Willee wrote: > But it isn't quite that simple. If we're talking 7 bit ASCII you get 127 characters that are common to 8...