from pymavlink import mavutil
import asyncio

async def run():
    while True:
        # Start a connection listening on a UDP port
        the_connection = mavutil.mavlink_connection('udpin:localhost:14550')

        # Wait for the first heartbeat 
        #   This sets the system and component ID of remote system for the link
        the_connection.wait_heartbeat()
        print("Heartbeat from system (system %u component %u)" % (the_connection.target_system, the_connection.target_component))
        asyncio.sleep(2)
        # Once connected, use 'the_connection' to get and send messages
        msg = the_connection.recv_match(type ='ODOMETRY',blocking=True)
        msg = str(msg)
        msg = msg.split(',')
        print(msg[17])
        #print(msg)
        asyncio.sleep(2)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(run())