Historically, mission planners interoperating with INAV (and multiwii) missions have used the XML mission file format defined by EOSBandi for MultiWii 2.3 (2013).
The format is defined the XSD schema here.
- Lower case tags are preferred by INAV. Older tools may prefer uppercase (the original MW usage).
- For INAV 4.0 and later, the
missionitem/flagsattribute is required for "fly-by home" waypoints and multi-mission files. - For INAV 4.0 and later, multi-mission files; mission segments are delimited by a flag value of
165(the MSP protocol 'last WP' value). - For multi-mission files, the waypoints may be numbered either sequentially across the whole file, or "reset-numbering" within each mission segment. The latter may (or not) be considered to be more "human readable", particularly where
JUMPis used. - The
mwptag was introduced by the eponymous mission planner. Other mission planners may consider that reusing some of the tags (cx,cy- centre location,zoomTMS zoom level,home-x,home-y- home location) is useful. metamay be used as a synonym formwp.- The
versiontag may be intepreted by mission planners as they see fit. For example, the (obsolete) Android 'ez-gui' application requires '2.3-pre8'. For multi-mission files it is recommended to use anotherversion. - The
mwp/metaelement may be interleaved withmissionitemin a multi-mission file to provide mission segment specific home, centre locations and zoom. - The
fwapproachelement defines INAV 7.1.0 and later Autoland parameters for the mission.
You can check that your files validate using the open source xmlint tool.
xmllint --schema docs/development/wp_mission_schema/mw-mission.xsd test.mission --noout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mission>
<version value="2.3-pre8"></version>
<mwp zoom="14" cx="-3.2632398333333335" cy="54.570950466666666" home-x="0" home-y="0" save-date="2021-11-12T14:07:03Z" generator="impload"></mwp>
<missionitem no="1" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5722109" lon="-3.2869291" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="2" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5708178" lon="-3.2642698" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="3" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5698227" lon="-3.2385206" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="165"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="4" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5599696" lon="-3.2958555" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="5" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5537978" lon="-3.2958555" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="6" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5547933" lon="-3.2864141" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="7" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5597705" lon="-3.2695913" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="8" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.555291" lon="-3.2598066" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="9" action="JUMP" lat="0" lon="0" alt="0" parameter1="1" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="165"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="10" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5714148" lon="-3.2501936" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="165"></missionitem>
</mission>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mission>
<!--mw planner 0.01-->
<version value="42"></version>
<meta save-date="2021-11-12T14:22:05+0000" zoom="14" cx="-3.2627249" cy="54.5710168" home-x="-3.2989342" home-y="54.5707123" generator="mwp (mwptools)"><details><distance units="m" value="3130"></distance></details></meta>
<missionitem no="1" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5722109" lon="-3.2869291" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="2" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5708178" lon="-3.2642698" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="3" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5698227" lon="-3.2385206" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="165"></missionitem>
<meta save-date="2021-11-12T14:22:05+0000" zoom="15" cx="-3.2778311" cy="54.5568837" home-x="-3.2983737" home-y="54.5622331" generator="mwp (mwptools)"><details><distance units="m" value="9029"></distance><nav-speed units="m/s" value="10"></nav-speed><fly-time units="s" value="929"></fly-time><loiter-time units="s" value="0"></loiter-time></details></meta>
<missionitem no="1" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5599696" lon="-3.2958555" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="2" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5537978" lon="-3.2958555" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="3" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5547933" lon="-3.2864141" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="4" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5597705" lon="-3.2695913" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="5" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5552910" lon="-3.2598066" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="0"></missionitem>
<missionitem no="6" action="JUMP" lat="0.0000000" lon="0.0000000" alt="0" parameter1="1" parameter2="1" parameter3="0" flag="165"></missionitem>
<meta save-date="2021-11-12T14:22:05+0000" zoom="20" cx="-3.2501936" cy="54.5714148" generator="mwp (mwptools)"><details><distance units="m" value="0"></distance></details></meta>
<missionitem no="1" action="WAYPOINT" lat="54.5714148" lon="-3.2501936" alt="50" parameter1="0" parameter2="0" parameter3="0" flag="165"></missionitem>
</mission>