Software for a CanSat groundstation, developed for usage on the CanSat Júnior 2020 competition. If you have received this in an already compiled format, you may find the source code in https://github.com/abread/groundstation
The project is divided in two parts: the desktop app and the transceiver code. The transceiver code is meant to be running on an Arduino connected to your computer and transceiver. It exposes all data received by the RFM69HCW transceiver and RSSI information. The desktop app connects to the Arduino, saves all received data in a file and shows it coming in realtime, as well as the current RSSI reported by the transceiver.
This is tested to work with the Arduino IDE.
You will need the following libraries:
- RFM69_LowPowerLab
- SPIFlash_LowPowerLab - this one isn't strictly used, but the RFM library depends on it for some reason
Before uploading, make sure you have set all required radio parameters (#defined in the beginning of the file) like frequency.
The code is built for an Arduino Nano Every board and the RFM69HCW transceiver, but it should be easy to adapt to other hardware.
Tested to work on Windows (MSVC, 64bit) and Linux (64bit).
Precompiled versions are available for Windows, macOS (.app bundle) and Linux (AppImage). All of them include Qt shared libraries. If you don't want to/can't use them, build from source.
If you're not comfortable building from source, Qt Creator is recommended.
On Linux systems, make sure you have qmake, and QSerialPort installed.
cd groundstation-app
qmake groundstation-app.pro
make
Ta-dah! The program is built on groundstation-app/groundstation-app.
On macOS the same process can be used after installing some version of Qt. By default an app bundle will be generated (that does not include Qt libraries).
On Windows, if you are using the MSVC compiler, replace the make call with nmake or Qt's pom. Make sure your environment is properly set up.