BlueSim with seperate SITL instance

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Hi,

I have tried to get bluesim GitHub - bluerobotics/bluesim: BlueROV2 Simulator using godot engine. running with my own instance of SITL. However the instructions are somewhat unclear as to how to do so.

Running Bluesim with QGC makes sense as per the instuctions. Run Bluesim and then connect manually in QGC to TCP 127.0.0.1, port 5760. This works fine.

Running my own SITL instance first with the example in the readme,

sim_vehicle.py -j6 -L RATBeach -v ArduSub -f vectored_6dof JSON --out=udpout:0.0.0.0:14550

automatically spins up a connection to QGC. If I then open BlueSim, it does not synchronize with this SITL instance. Clicking on the sync with sitl checkmark only freezes the simulation. As such, the best I have managed is just SITL running with QGC, and seperately a BlueSim simulation running by itself.

Any advice?

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Hi @plavo,

This command was apparently written incorrectly in the README - thanks for raising it!

We’ve now corrected it to:

sim_vehicle.py -j6 -L RATBeach -v ArduSub -f vectored_6dof --model JSON --out=udpout:0.0.0.0:14550

(note the --model keyword before JSON).

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