RX_standalone and TX_standalone Verses Python Scripts

[kenktk]

Hi,
I am new to wifibroadcast. Upon looking into the bash scripts for RX and the TX standalone, I saw that it was deprecated. I am confused on how I am supposed to use the Python scripts to send data. If I am supposed to run the python files to send and receive data, where do I configure the RX and TX ports (because there is a local.cfg and then there is a wifibroadcast.cfg in /etc/).

This is all pretty confusing to me. My use case for wifibroadcast is to send telemetry only, (not video yet) between two android phones that are connected to two laptops. I have already established the tethering. Now all I have to do is set up bidirectional data streaming.

[svpcom]

Bash scripts are deprecated because it is hard to implement all WFB functions (TX diversity, mavlink aggregation, proxy and others) in bash.Python is not used on performance-critical path but for glue all together and for configuration management.

How WFB configs works:

1. There are builtin config telemetry/conf/master.cfg than holds all defaults settings.
2. To override some of settings there are two ways:
   • Create /etc/wifibroadcast.cfg
   • Create telemetry/conf/local.cfg

First is used for production setups (when WFB is in /usr/bin) and second is for development and tests when you run WFB from sources

[svpcom]

For bidirectional telemetry it is hard to use standalone wfb_rx and wfb_tx because they unable to share the same UDP port (what python proxy does)

[kenktk]

Thank you for the quick reply! When I run any of the python scripts I get python errors. Would you suggest to rebuild?

[kenktk]

Errors such as:
python3 version.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "version.py", line 28, in <module> main() File "version.py", line 13, in main ttuple = time.gmtime(int(sys.argv[1])) IndexError: list index out of range
or when running:

python3 server.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "server.py", line 45, in <module> from .common import abort_on_crash, exit_status ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '__main__.common'; '__main__' is not a package

Let me know if I need to file an issue. I am not sure exactly why this is happening.