@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@ certain satellite projects:
450450
451451* The `BME telemetry server `_, which is used by SMOG-P, ATL-1 and SMOG-1.
452452
453+ * `Harbin Institute of Technology `_, which connects to the telemetry proxy included in
454+ `gr-lilacsat `_ and `gr-dslwp `_.
455+
453456To enable telemetry submission, it is necessary to edit some parameters in
454457``gr_satellites ``'s config file, which is located in
455458``~/.gr_satellites/config.ini ``. If this file does not exist, it will be created
@@ -495,6 +498,21 @@ To enable telemetry submission to the BME server, it is necessary to
495498`register an account in the BME server `_. The user and password should be
496499entered into the gr-satellites ``.ini `` file.
497500
501+ To use the Harbin Institute of Technology proxy to submit telemetry, the proxy
502+ needs to be run and started in the local computer before running
503+ ``gr_satellites ``. The command line tool will connect to the correct port where
504+ the proxy is listening (this is specified in the SatYAML file of each
505+ satellite). All the configuration regarding the station and the operator is done
506+ in the proxy itself. When ``gr_satellites `` starts, it will attempt to connect
507+ to the proxy, and print a warning if unable (in which case telemetry submission
508+ through the proxy is disabled for this run).
509+
510+ .. note ::
511+ The Harbin Institute of Technology proxy is a Python2 application that uses
512+ PyQt4. Users having more modern sytems may find useful the PyQt5 version that
513+ can be found in the `pyqt5 branch of gr-lilacsat `_. This requires ``tornado `` version
514+ 4.5.3. It will not work with more recent versions of ``tornado ``.
515+
498516For some telemetry servers, including SatNOGS DB, the frames are submitted
499517together with a timestamp of reception. This timestamp is taken from the
500518computer's clock by ``gr_satellites `` at the moment when it decodes the
@@ -654,3 +672,7 @@ processed, thus restoring the correct polarity.
654672.. _feh : https://feh.finalrewind.org/
655673.. _NumPy : https://numpy.org/
656674.. _Matplotlib : https://matplotlib.org/
675+ .. _Harbin Institute of Technology : http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/
676+ .. _gr-lilacsat : https://github.com/bg2bhc/gr-lilacsat
677+ .. _gr-dslwp : https://github.com/bg2bhc/gr-dslwp
678+ .. _pyqt5 branch of gr-lilacsat : https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-lilacsat/tree/pyqt5
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