EQUiSat Ground Station (i.e. EQUiStation)

Scripts and utilities to run on a Raspberry Pi for parsing and processing packets as EQUiSat's ground station.

See brownspace.org for more information

Installing

Simply run:

./install.bash

Components

• groundstation.py - primary groundstation loop script for receiving and publishing transmissions
• log-packet-extractor.py - simple utility to extract sample packets from testing dumps
• packetparse.py - full EQUiSat packet parser (outputs JSON)
• receiveTest.py - generic utility to receive/log data from a serial port
• reedsolomon/ - error correcting utilities/scripts (C with python interface)

Pi Configuration Information

• Instructions for enabling UART Hardware on PI 3 Pins 14&15 https://spellfoundry.com/2016/05/29/configuring-gpio-serial-port-raspbian-jessie-including-pi-3/