[Therion] linux and distoX

[Marco Corvi]

topolinux code is rather old and was written for distox v.1
bt connection might work, but the data protocol is only v.1

calibration packets are unchanged in v.2,
but calibration coeffs have three more numbers for the non-linear algo.

the calibration algo is the linear one only.

marco
On Sep 23, 2016 2:38 PM, "Wookey" <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2016-09-22 20:52 +0200, cawa.sorix at 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
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