bluerobotics / bluerobotics/cockpit

frontend: Development of a wind overlay to supplement sailboat course plotting.

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Description

### Current behaviour

After exploring the cockpit codebase I could find no inbound telemetry for sailboat that corresponded with a wind heading and strength reading. There is no connection to an NOAA API or other wind server to display wind data in the GCS when operating the sailboat.

### Expected or desired behaviour

I want to submit a PR and iterate on the idea of:
1. Decode the ArduPilot `WIND` MAVLink message `(direction, speed, speed_z)` in `src/libs/vehicle/mavlink/vehicle.ts,` expose it while following the existing ATTITUDE/GLOBAL_POSITION_INT pattern.

2. An API for wind forecasts.

3. An overlay that lets sailors toggle between local wind streamed from the boat and the general forecast from the API.

A mixture of both current data from an onboard sensor and data from a 3rd party can allow sailors to adjust their courses so sailboats can sail optimally. @patrickelectric

### Prerequisites

- [x] I have checked to make sure that a similar request has not already been filed or fixed.

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Research direction

Start in src/libs/vehicle/mavlink/vehicle.ts and compare the existing ATTITUDE and GLOBAL_POSITION_INT handling. Define the forecast API and overlay scope, then verify that WIND data and forecast data can be displayed and toggled for sailboat course plotting.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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