This is the repository for the VATT hexapod source code. It runs the PI hexapod that positions the VATT secondary mirror.
This does not use docker anymore. Simply make the build and the indiserver launcher on desktop runs it on port 7600
Back to the README.
Simply use the Makefile with
make
This will build the indi-vatt-pihex binary.
This software is an INDI driver and is meant to be run with an indiserver. Typically that looks something like:
indiserver ./indi-vatt-pihex
vatttel_com.c/.h: This is the communication with vatttel using the old mixed ascii/binary vatt protocol. we use this only to get the temperature
ngclient.c/.h: this is the communication with vatttel using the newer ng protocol. We use this to get the elevation
vatthex.c/.h: this is the communication witht pi hexapod. Its basically a wrapper around the pi library
vatt_secondary.cpp/.h: this is the meat of the software. This has all the algorithms and the indi driver built in.
readcbw.d/.h: these are some routines to read temperatures from the Control by Web module. replaces vatttel.c/.h
testcbw.c: this is a small program that tests the readout of both CBW and TCS strut temps
mjson.c/.h: a small library for parsing json in a c program
test.c: This is a set of command line tools to test the PI hexapod.
PI/libpi_pi_gcs2-3.9.0.a, PI/libpi_pi_gcs2.so.3.9.0, PI/PI_GCS2_DLL.h: these are the PI supplied libs and header
Because of the portability issues with INDI, it is currently run in a docker container. This container can be built with build.sh. Building the dockerfile will also make the indidriver and build all the libvatthex stuff. See the Dockerfile for details.
It could be run standalone by simply running the indiserver command as shown above.
The docker container is run in docker-compose fashion so the INDI driver is bundled with the INDI webclient and the webserver. As it stands now both this INDI driver and the vatt-guidebox INDI drivers are run in the same docker-compose bundle. The docker-compose file can be found here.
To have the docker-compose file run on startup we build a systemd service. This process is described in the indi_webclient readme.