I'm making good progress on my eggStation project. I have all hardware built and working. (see the attached block diagram). All of the NI LabVIEW and eggStation executables are installed and running. Telemetry and GPS data are being received by eggstation.exe. I have a Google Cloud/Maps API key set up and included in the eggStation settings. To make this all work, I need to wait until there is a GPS fix and that the Proton has been armed so it sends telemetry data but then data is being received properly.
So, I now have a couple of questions to continue to get this set up and ready for the next launch.
- There is a popup when eggstation.exe starts that is looking for a staticmap.png file like this:
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What is this, where stored, and how do I set it up?
- The Google Maps window is throwing an error and is not displaying the Home location image. I'm not sure what I need to do about this.
Any advice on how I get eggstation.exe fully working would be great! Thanks.
BTW, to get the COM ports working and communicating with eggStation.exe, it is necessary to the connect RXD (not TXD) on the LCD-RX (GPS data) and RX Dongle (telemetry data) to RXD on the USB to serial adapters.