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gvandela / MeteorRpiReceiver

a set of python scripts to automatically capture, decode & e-mail Meteor-M2 satellite images
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Add some documentation #8

Open raspyweather opened 6 years ago

raspyweather commented 6 years ago

Please add some documentation how to use it. I really love this repository and wish that I would have knew how to use it much earlier. Please document which packages people need to install and maybe on which raspberries it's working. I really really love this project, thanks for making it open source.

gvandela commented 6 years ago

It's my pleasure to hear others are using something I scratched together! Thanks! As for documentation, it took a while to figure out enough python to get this thing to work. I did not document my steps though, so I'm honestly not sure. I'd have to install it from scratch again and I keep getting distracted by the tons of other stuff I want to get working. Don't get me wrong though, I think some documentation would be awesome. Can you share your steps or obstacles you had to overcome? Was gnuradio tricky, or any of the python libraries? Anything that minimises my effort and correspondingly increases the changes of this ever getting documented ;) As for devices, I only ever ran it on a rPi 3B, but heard others got it running on other platforms. The GRC stuff is quite computationally intensive, so a rPi zero won't cut it I'm sure.

raspyweather commented 6 years ago

I think the best way would be to add a list of which dependencies need to be installed since error output from these scripts isn't the most descriptive. For me python was very tricky, since I fell for pip upgrade pip which killed my python installation which was lots of work fixing again (getting the error pip main not found), but that's not your problem obviously. As far as I know, you need to install gnuradio , gr-osmosdr from apt and psutil , ephem or something else?