Trying to bring a different system into production

[Francis Bartholomew - OIT]

The DELL laptop was a fine 'first phase' for working with the ground tracking station; however, it doesn't have a lot of horsepower, and as such, I'm trying to migrate off of it onto other systems for running the tracking GUI and managing the streaming.

To that end, I'm having a *very* hard time getting the antenna tracking software running on any other systems. There isn't a clear set of instructions on how to get python and all the right libraries onto any other systems. I've almost gotten it working on one of my linux boxes - but I started having issues with differences in the Qt implementation (meaning, I'd start the program, and it'd throw up with errors that I will paste to this thread when I get home tonight and am in front of that system again)

So, I started trying to install on one of my windows systems. Installed Anaconda2 for Python 2.7, and then followed the instructions included on the flash drives we got at the workshop:

conda install pyside pyserial pymysql pyqtgraph

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip install pillow --upgrade pillow



THE FOLLOWING COMMAND NEEDS TO GRAB A FILE FROM THE DESKTOP, MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE DESKTOP DIRECTORY (cd desktop):



pip install mysqlclient-1.3.7-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl


SETTING UP AD HOC NETWORK ON LAPTOP WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT:



netsh wlan set profileparameter <ssid> connectiontype=ibss connectionmode=manual



REPLACE <ssid> WITH YOUR NETWORK NAME (teams registration number: example oo1j)


Only the first three lines actually work. When I go to try and use the wheel file for the mysql client, things start failing. (the fact that I'm not installing this on an AMD system, notwithstanding)

(C:\Program Files\Anaconda2) C:\Users\dfbarth\Desktop>pip install mysqlclient-1.3.9.tar.gz

Processing c:\users\dfbarth\desktop\mysqlclient-1.3.9.tar.gz

Building wheels for collected packages: mysqlclient

Running setup.py bdist_wheel for mysqlclient ... error
... (various bits of message here, none of which are the error itself)
_mysql.c(29) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'my_config.h': No such file or directory

error: command 'C:\\Users\\dfbarth\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Common\\Microsoft\\Visual C++ for Python\\9.0\\VC\\Bin\\amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

This is where my wheel install chokes. This is also not the only problem I'm having, because it's possible that I've correctly installed the MySQL connectors themselves via the binaries - it'd sure be nice to know if I did, but when I fire up Spyder, and try to run the software, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\dfbarth\Desktop\V7\antenna_dualtracker_GUI_v7.0.py", line 12, in <module>

import gps

ImportError: No module named gps

(My team and I have been doing extensive work on the tracking software prior to trying to run it on a new system, hence the versioning)

So, what python module has 'gps' in it? I can't find anything when I do a 'pip search gps'; I think I figured it out on my linux box (though, honestly, I'll have to dig pretty hard to remember what module finally stopped giving me *that* error) - is there a master list of all the modules you guys added to your python environments to get your GUI and underlying code working? If so, if you could pass it along, that'd be grand!

Thanks!

.f

[David MSGC]

Anaconda has all the modules required for the antenna tracker, PIL-pillow is used for the RFD ground station and the ad-hoc set up is for RFD ground station on a windows 8.1 or newer machine. If you are setting up ad-hoc on Windows 8.1 or newer for use with RFD, or other projects that require it outside of eclipse systems, there are a few steps you need to do before the steps mentioned in your post, these initial steps are in the instructions for initial set up of an ad-hoc network provided in the July workshop material. You can find more info on the ad-hoc if needed here: globalcache.zendesk.com/entries/82172789-FAQ-Windows-8-1-and-Windows-10-AdHoc-network-support-solution
If you are using a wi-fi network adapter from intel some models need to use an older driver to connect to ad-hoc and you have to 'hide' this driver from windows update, If you have such a wifi adapter let me know and I can help with that too.
You don't have to use Anaconda, it was chosen since most modules for all the eclipse ballooning systems are already included. If you are using anaconda it is safer to use 'conda install' for any other packages needed(but it should have everything needed for antenna tracker), EXCEPT PIL, PIL is used for RFD and is installed with "pip install Pillow-PIL". You can get a list of all installed packages with 'pip list' and 'conda list' compare these lists with the Dell computer and any new system you are setting up.
I have used linux for the RFD ground station and the only change is the com port will be a dev/tty.... you can find it in the /dev folder, other than that it will work on most distros of linux. We have not tried to use Linux with the antenna tracker so I am not sure what has to be changed for the antenna tracker to work with linux.
The only time I have had to use wheel is with the rfd system being installed with out Anaconda, so if you are using anaconda or not setting up RFD wheel is not required.
Are you setting up another computer to work with RFD? If so you will have to install drivers for the FTDI cable, install PIL, and setting up ad-hoc is recommended.
If you are setting up another computer for use with the antenna tracker you can just install Anaconda and should not need anything else.