spot-motion-monitor 2.0.0

User interface for Spot Seeing Monitor.

User interface for a Dome Seeing Monitor.

Development of this product evolved from the Blanco Dome Seeing Monitor Probe.

NOTE: This package only supports Python 3 and PyQt5.

Documentation

The full documentation is at http://spot_motion_monitor.rtfd.org.

History

2.0.0 (2020-01-09)

• Rewrite of program configuration system
• Add more information to telemetry files
• Change to BSD 3-clause license

1.5.1 (2019-12-11)

• Trap crash if bad ethernet cable is present for Vimba camera

1.5.0 (2019-11-06)

• Add spot FWHM calculation and display

1.4.1 (2019-10-30)

• Fix crash on shutdown

1.4.0 (2019-10-24)

• Use newer version of pymba (0.3.5)
• Update Vimba camera internals to use new API

1.3.0 (2019-08-23)

• Add configuration mechanism to stop telemetry directory from being removed
• Add missing API descriptions
• Make tag deploy on Python 3.7 build

1.2.1 (2019-08-16)

• Added timestamp to UI configuration telemetry file

1.2.0 (2019-06-20)

• Added input validation to configuration dialog system
• Added tooltips on Data Information section
• Added units to Gaussian camera configuration tab
• Added safe camera shutdown on program quit
• Added updates to documentation
• Keep program from crashing with no spot and ROI mode requested
  • This also fixed a missed pymba API change
• Fixed behavior with respect to ROI mode when stopping frame acquisition
• Corrected OS value for program quit keyboard shortcut

1.1.0 (2019-04-16)

• Fixed program to handle new pymba API changes
• Added methodology to configure program via a file
• Added lots of documentation
• Updates to telemetry information
• Minor fixes to configuration dialog UIs
• Minor fixes to docstrings

1.0.2 (2018-11-20)

• Fix getting additional 1D PSD plots when switching camera

1.0.1 (2018-11-13)

• Fix requirements for deployment

1.0.0 (2018-11-12)

• Add telemetry information file creation
• Allow saving centroid and power spectrum distributions on a per buffer basis
• Waterfall PSD plots now log y
• Fixed Gaussian spot oscillation issue
• Write documentation for adding a new camera interface

0.8.0 (2018-10-24)

• Added 1D Power Spectrum Distribution plots
• Rearranged plots on UI
• Added color map to PSD Waterfall plots
• Change data widget to only update once per buffer fill
• Speed improvement work to obtain 150 FPS for Vimba camera

0.7.0 (2018-09-30)

• Added configuration dialogs for plots and camera

0.6.0 (2018-09-14)

• Support for Vimba interface cameras
• Added menu switching for multiple cameras
• Added CLI parser for profiling and future use

0.5.1 (2018-09-10)

• Fix crash when using buffer size spinbox

0.5.0 (2018-09-03)

• Adding spot oscillation to Gaussian camera
• Adding new controls to UI
  • ROI FPS
  • Buffer Size
  • Show Frames
• Centroid 1D plots disable auto range after start
• Make scatter and histogram plots update at same rate as PSD plots
• Locking out control buttons to stop unexpected behavior

0.4.0 (2018-07-29)

• Create ROI frame processing
• Create and fill plots for ROI mode:
  • Rolling 1D centroid plots
  • 2D scatter plot with axis projections
  • Power spectrum distribution waterfall plots
• Push ROI data to camera status widget

0.3.0 (2018-07-12)

• Create full frame processing
• Added camera status widget

0.2.0 (2018-06-29)

• Created Gaussian camera and controls
• Integrated camera CCD frame plot

0.1.2 (2018-05-30)

• Switch to entry_points use exclusively

0.1.1 (2018-05-29)

• Testing entry_points mechanism

0.1.0 (2018-05-24)

• Creating basic application with no functionality
• Testing deployment