Aux/relay comms between arduous and qgroundcontrol?

Looking to control/monitor the GPIO on a Pixhawk via qgc and arduous. Relays are enabled in settings, and I’m looking for MAVLINK_MSG_ID_ACTUATOR_OUTPUT_STATUS in the comms messages but nothing is transmitted, even after successfully triggering a change state in the relay via separate python script. Note that this is currently using the vagrant SITL, as I currently don’t have access to the physical robot. Thanks for any help!

MAVLINK_MSG_ID_ACTUATOR_OUTPUT_STATUS

This message is not used by ardupilot (does not appear in the codebase). There is no feedback for the current relay state, unfortunately.

technically, its ACTUATOR_OUTPUT_STATUS in MAVLink -

https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html#ACTUATOR_OUTPUT_STATUS

is SERVO_OUTPUT_RAW used?

Yes, but it does not reflect servo state

I see, so currently the only way to communicate servo/relay/pin state is via RC_OUTPUTS?

I’m not sure what your suggestion is, or where you see RC_OUTPUTS as a potential source for this information. I checked yesterday, and it appears that the present relay state is not communicated at all by the autopilot.