SimfPythonGUI 1.0.0b2

A GUI controller for the closed source SIMF camera capture utility

Solar Irradiance Microforecasting Control Panel

A QT and Python3 based graphical control panel for the Lepton-Grabber

Installation

The application can be installed from pypi using pip:

pip install SimfPythonGUI

On some systems you may need to specify Python 3's version of pip:

pip3 install SimfPythonGUI

Package information can be found on the pypi package page for the project.

Dependencies

Dependencies should be managed automatically when installed with pip, but they are provided here for reference:

• Python3
• PyQT5
• watchdog

The program relies on the following system utilities being installed or suitably compatible replacements (configure the replacements using the configuration menu):

• bash
• sudo

Usage

The gui can be launched from the command line assuming your python package path is set up properly using the command:

simfgui

A configuration file is written by default to ~/.simfgui.ini. Running the utility will require sudo permissions

Contributing and Editing

The repository contains the files for editing with the JetBrains PyCharm IDE. The .ui files can be editied with QT Designer (they were created using QT Designer 5.11). QT Designer can be obtained from the QT website or your favorite package manager.

Source Code

The code is hosted online in two locations and accepting pull requests:

• Primary
• Mirror (GitHub)

Questions, comments, issues?

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