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Command Mavlink

pxh> mavlink help

### Description
This module implements the MAVLink protocol, which can be used on a Serial link or UDP network connection.
It communicates with the system via uORB: some messages are directly handled in the module (eg. mission
protocol), others are published via uORB (eg. vehicle_command).

Streams are used to send periodic messages with a specific rate, such as the vehicle attitude.
When starting the mavlink instance, a mode can be specified, which defines the set of enabled streams with their rates.
For a running instance, streams can be configured via `mavlink stream` command.

There can be multiple independent instances of the module, each connected to one serial device or network port.

### Implementation
The implementation uses 2 threads, a sending and a receiving thread. The sender runs at a fixed rate and dynamically
reduces the rates of the streams if the combined bandwidth is higher than the configured rate (`-r`) or the
physical link becomes saturated. This can be checked with `mavlink status`, see if `rate mult` is less than 1.

**Careful**: some of the data is accessed and modified from both threads, so when changing code or extend the
functionality, this needs to be take into account, in order to avoid race conditions and corrupt data.

### Examples
Start mavlink on ttyS1 serial with baudrate 921600 and maximum sending rate of 80kB/s:
$ mavlink start -d /dev/ttyS1 -b 921600 -m onboard -r 80000

Start mavlink on UDP port 14556 and enable the HIGHRES_IMU message with 50Hz:
$ mavlink start -u 14556 -r 1000000
$ mavlink stream -u 14556 -s HIGHRES_IMU -r 50
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