Ground Station Software

Setting up ground station software to run on laptop

Installation

First, install npm. Then, run $ npm install. This will take a while as there are many dependencies for the ground station software.

If your terminal fails on

prebuild-install --tag-prefix @serialport/bindings@ || node-gyp rebuild

try uninstalling and reinstalling node.js.

If you are getting a git error such as

npm WARN addRemoteGit Error: Command failed: git -c core.longpaths=true config - -get remote.origin.url

try running npm cache clear .

If you are on Windows and are installing npm in WSL, npm will likely fail if you have npm also installed in Windows itself. Install npm in only one of the two.

To run the program, you will first have to plug in the ground station and then determine which device the ground station is.

Running

On Windows, open Device Manager, look under COM Ports. Remember which are listed, and then unplug ground station. The Device Manager will refresh and, if the ground station was correctly detected by Windows, one of them will have disappeared. You can plug ground station back in for it to reappear. It should have a name in the format COMx where x is a number. If you installed npm in Windows, you will run the ground station software with the command npm start COMx. If you install npm in WSL, you will run the ground station software with the command npm start /dev/ttySx where x is the same number as in Device Manager.

Make sure you have logs folder in that directory or else this will fail!

Open up a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080. If opening this gives you a blank page, inspect element . If the error says something along the lines of cannot find dist/openmct then...we really don't know. For now, contact someone who has it working to email you their openmct package. Then from ground_station_openmct/node_modules run rm -rf openmct then unzip the emailed openmct package into ground_station_openmct/node_modules .