FreeEMS-Tuner Development Diary - Comments

[sry_not4sale]

Awesome, thanks for the screenie

Also on ohloh now btw: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/freeems-tuner

[Fred]

Impressive stuff guys, good to see the community working together :-)

I'm off on some training course today/tomorrow. It's actually quite good. So is the 160 quid a night room I'm in, free internet, free wine, food, etc :-) beats working, thats for sure.

Unfortunately no code written or released this evening. I did show up early though and do some significant work before the course started, so hopefully when we release it will have real functionality as well as the protocol stuff ;-)

Fred.

[shameem]

Also on ohloh now btw: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/freeems-tuner

Hey, Can you do a source tarball or something - i dont want to mess around with git and it will be nice to have one convenient source packet to download instead of multiple files....

[jharvey]

I've also got a handful of Linux boxes. What parts should I install for the Linux version? The box I plan to use is a Myth-Dora box, so I would use yum to install. The INSTALL notes python, and wxpython, don't I also need py.serial? I've already got it installed, for another reason, but if it's needed perhaps it should be in the INSTALL file. While at it, probably wouldn't hurt to cut and paste the above noted win32 install process into that file.

Also I installed git, but don't know what that means yet. So I used our good old friend to down load.

wget -rF http://github.com/srynot4sale/freeems-tuner.git/

So how do I use the Fake.py? I don't see a gui option for this, and I didn't see instructions in the README. In config.default.ini I changed Serial to Fake, then restarted main.py, and it doesn't open. Perhaps I need to compile the py to pyc?

[BenFenner]

Can you do a source tarball or something

I was going to ask the same thing. I didn't use git, I just downloaded. I guess there's probably a FF extension I could use, but a tar/zip/rar would be nice at some stage.

[BenFenner]

So how do I use the Fake.py? In config.default.ini I changed Serial to Fake, then restarted main.py, and it doesn't open.

You should read config.default.ini closer. It tells you to make a new ini file. Although your way should have worked too. You have to remember to choose to connect to the comm port in the GUI before you can get the functionality from the Fake file.

[jharvey]

[quote="BenFenner]You have to remember to choose to connect to the comm port in the GUI before you can get the functionality from the Fake file.[/quote]
How do you choose what to connect to? The closest I saw was connect in the pull downs. When I select that, it yells at me. I'm assuming it's because I don't have a serial port for it to use.

I'll look closer at the ini file when I get home. Work blocks it

[BenFenner]

connect in the pull downs

That's the right place. Something else is borked. Give that ini file another look (and this time make your own ini file).

[sry_not4sale]

There should be a download button on the github page that lets you download it as a zip or tgz
http://github.com/srynot4sale/freeems-tuner/tree/master (beside fork and watch buttons)

Post up your ini file if you are having trouble, to select the Fake adaptor you need something like:

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[Comms]
default = Fake

The capitals matter!

[sry_not4sale]

I've also got a handful of Linux boxes. What parts should I install for the Linux version? The box I plan to use is a Myth-Dora box, so I would use yum to install. The INSTALL notes python, and wxpython, don't I also need py.serial? I've already got it installed, for another reason, but if it's needed perhaps it should be in the INSTALL file. While at it, probably wouldn't hurt to cut and paste the above noted win32 install process into that file.

pySerial is bundled with the Tuner, in the libs/ directory



Ill write up a basic git tutorial for getting the code.

But basically...

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apt-get install git-core

Then run:

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git clone git://github.com/srynot4sale/freeems-tuner.git dir_to_create