Feature Description

ESCs that provide health, RPM and temperature feedback are becoming increasingly common so it would be good to report this to the pilot in a clear way. I think the most intuitive display would be similar to the existing GPS or battery displays which would be a coloured icon showing the health (white or green for OK, orange or red for unhealthy) and then if the user hovers over the icon or clicks it more information is displayed including the per-ESC RPM, temperature and errors (so users can see which ESC is struggling).

As an example of where this would have helped, we have this users report from the ArduPilot 4.6 forums where AM32 bi-directional DShot ESCs started reporting errors 4 minutes before one of them conked out and the vehicle crashed. With better warning it is quite likely that the pilot would have landed safely

I suspect someone will read this and immediately tell me that QGC already includes this and all that ArduPilot needs to do is send the WIP ESC_INFO and ESC_STATUS messages but that would also be a great result.

Flight Stacks

ArduPilot

Vehicle Types

Multirotor