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================================================================================== myRotatorL Linux Application for myRotator controllers (USB Serial) (c) Robert Brown 2019-2021. All rights reserved. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== USING myRotator CONTROLLERS WITH LINUX ================================================================================== There are a number of ways you can use a myRotator Controller with Linux systems. 1. myROTATORL Linux application myrotatorl LINUX APPLICATION The provided LINUX application was developed and tested on UBUNTU with the MATE desktop environment, and supports both TCP/IP or Serial USB connections to a myRotator controller. Copy the myrotatorl (this runs on Intel based 64bit computers only) AND myROTATORL.ini files to a user folder on your Linux system (like a folder under the desktop) myROTATORL SETTINGS INI FILE This file is used to save and restore the application settings. [SETTINGS] delayonconnect=2 serialreadtime=6 comport=/dev/ttyUSB0 comspeed=0 coilpower=0 reversedirection=0 motorspeed=2 loginterval=60000 logfilepath=/home/rufus/Desktop/myRotator/LogFiles logerrors=1 CHANGE PORT SETTINGS IN THE myROTATORL.INI FILE The INI file will need changing. There is a string for the variable comport which looks like comport=/dev/ttyS0 You will need to change the com port string to what is used for your system. For Raspberry PI it is more likely that string will look like comport=/dev/ttyUSB0 CHANGE LOG FILE LOCATION SETTINGS IN THE myROTATORL.INI FILE The INI file will need changing. There is a string for the variable logfilepath which looks like logfilepath= You will need to specify the path where your log files will be stored. The path below points to user bob’s home folder, and there is a folder on bob’s desktop called myLogFiles logfilepath=/home/bob/Desktop/myLogFiles After making the required changes to the myROTATORL.ini file, save the file. Alternatively, when the application runs the first time, it will detect that the logfile path has not been specified in the INI file and ask you to specify the folder where the log files can be saved. Once this is specified, then the log path is saved for future use. REQUIRED GROUP PERMISSION You must be a member of the group tty (Ubuntu-Mate) (others are the dialout group) Use menu, administration, users and groups, manage groups, tty, properties and ensure that your name is checked, then click OK FLAG APPLICATION AS EXECUTABLE Run a terminal window (as root) in the folder and change permissions of file chmod +x myrotatorl or you can right mouse click the file, properties, permissions and check allow executing file as program. I had to right mouse click file and chose run as adminstrator. It seems it cannot connect to tty0 device without admin privilege. OTHER LINUX SYSTEMS You will need to recompile the source code using Lazarus Pascal, in order to run the application on a different Linux system (or Raspberry Pi). The code was generated on a 32bit Intel based CPU. INSTALL THE ARDUINO IDE To install the Arduino IDE so you can program the controller, open a terminal window and type the following commands sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install Arduino INSTALL LAZARUS If you need to recompile the source code, you will need to install Lazarus sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install fpc sudo apt-get install Lazarus RE-COMPILING THE SOURCE To recompile the source, download the source files and extract the zip file into a folder. In that folder, open the myrotatorl.lpi file in Lazarus and then from the menu bar select Run-Compile. Once the program is built, the myrotatorl file can be executed. When the program is first executed, and you did not specify where the log files are to saved, the application will first ask where to save the log files. After selecting a folder location, the application will save the log file path and continue. PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTS FOR MORE INFORMATION The documents are located in the Zip file under the Documents folder.