Sending external position to crazyflie using ZMQ

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alberto
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Sending external position to crazyflie using ZMQ

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Hello all,

We are trying to make a crazyflie perform autonomously. We are relaying in the flow deck and loco positioning. So far the loco positioning is giving us a hard time, therefore we are supplementing it in certain situations. Particularly, we setup a camera system based on openCV just for landing and taking off. We are able to send position updates to the crazyflie using cf.loc.send_extpos([x, y, z]) from the python library. However, we would like to use the desktop client for monitoring. I have been looking in the docs and in the forums for a way to do the same through ZMQ but I have not found it. I've seen how to access the log, set control points, etc, but not something equivalent to the previous python function. Honestly, I do not know much about ZMQ besides the first steps.
Is what I want to do possible in the current implementation of the client?
alberto
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Re: Sending external position to crazyflie using ZMQ

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Just as a reference to anybody interested, what I ended up doing was adding a class ZMQExtPos in utils. This class listen in a new port. This class is also in charge of updating the position of the drone using cflib.
I believe doing it this way keeps the code compartmentalized. As I have not dive deep into the code, does this sound like a reasonable way of doing this without breaking something else?
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