On 2016-09-22 20:52 +0200, cawa.sorix@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I look for a software to use a distoX on linux, I found for windows, android, but nothing on linux. Do you know if a linux soft exist ?
Sort-of. The situation is not great. You can download, but not calibrate, in my experience. There are two bits of software, both a bit half-arsed. dxtool by Mateusz Golicz, simple tool to download distoX data. This summer Olly Betts patched it to work on a distoX2. A preliminary version of that patch is included in my dxtool version at: http://wookware.org/software/repo/pool/main/d/dxtool/ A better one is stuck on a machine that is poorly. This is not fancy but it does download readings. upstream is at: http://jaskinie.jaszczur.org/index_en.html prompted by this mail to finished this off, I have just uploaded it to debian, so it should be available there quite soon at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dxtool The other codebase is Marco Corvi's precursor to topodroid: topolinux The drawing part of that codebase, using QT3 is competely obsolete, but the distoX tools comms part is still useful. I got it to download data, and calibration numbers but I never got it to successfully calculate new calibrations and upload them. It was 90% there but there were problems with different tools ordering data in different ways. I never got round to fixing it. It would be good if someone got enthused to fix up this code and then we could do calibrations without needing a windows PDA or laptop to run pockettopo, or an android device to run topodroid. As I own neither of those things I would really like to see this fixed, but still haven't got round to it as it's usually expedition time and it's easier to borrow a suitable device than to stop and fiddle with software :-) I would be keen to work with anyone who has some time for this, to resurrect the 'utils' part of that codebase in working form. Upstream is at https://code.google.com/archive/p/topolinux/ but was abondonned to work on topodroid instead. Marco could no doubt provide more info. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/