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pyRadMon - logger for Geiger counters                         
Original Copyright 2013 by station pl_gdn_1                     
Copyright 2014 by Auseklis Corporation, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
                                                                   
This file is part of The PyRadMon Project                          
https://sourceforge.net/p/pyradmon                                  
                                                                 
PyRadMon is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.                                                    

PyRadMon is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
more details.                                                        

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with PyRadMon.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
                                                                          
@license GPL-3.0+ <http://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0+>     

To see your online logs, report a bug or request a new feature, please
visit http://www.radmon.org and/or https://sourceforge.net/p/pyradmon


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# Installation procedure for Debian/Ubuntu
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Save any unsaved work, you will need to reboot!

1. Download, unzip and save pyradmon.py to your home folder
2. Open terminal
3. Install pySerial and enable user access to the desired serial port

su
apt-get install python-serial
adduser yourusername dialout
reboot

4. Log back in, open terminal.

5. Run pyradmon

python pyradmon.py

The pyradmon script will generate a config file for you and exit

5. Edit the configuration file

nano config.txt

Fill in your username and password.
Usually the serial port will be /dev/ttyUSB0 unless you have other devices connected
Set the baud rate suitable for your counter, e.g. 2400 for MyGeiger
Set the protocol to mygeiger.

Ctrl-X to save, answer Y

6. Run pyradmon

python pyradmon.py

To run python as a separate process use

nohup python pyradmon.py &
Source: README.txt, updated 2014-03-11