SkyView Pi

Hardware

Single-board computer

Any of Raspberry Pi's that have 40-pin GPIO connector should suffice.

 

Bill of materials

Required

Number	Part	Qty	Picture	Source
1	Waveshare 2.7 inch e-Paper HAT B&W 1	1		AliExpress 1 2 3 4

¹ - 2-color (black and white) version of the e-Paper HAT is the only one supported by SkyView's firmware.

Recommended

SkyView Pi is designed to best operate together with SoftRF Dongle Edition.

Number	Part	Qty	Picture	Source
1	LilyGO® & SoftRF T-Motion 2	1		AliExpress 1 2 3

² - 868 MHz variant is applicable for these world regions: EU, RU, NZ, SA, IN ;
     915 MHz - US, CA, AU ;
     433 MHz - CN .

Assembly

 

Software

Although CLI application's source code for Raspberry Edition is located at the same place
and is shared with other SkyView platforms - build instructions for the code are different.

This build has to be done on a Raspberry Pi host.
A known good Raspbian OS version that fits for this purpose is "Stretch".
Make sure that basic development packages (such as: binutils, g++, GNU make & etc) are installed.

1. transfer full content of SkyView and libraries GitHub folders into a temporary build directory:

   SkyView --> <your path>/SkyView
   libraries  --> <your path>/libraries
   

2. change directory on <your path>/SkyView and execute make as follows:
   

pi@raspberrypi: $ make -f Makefile.RPi
(cd ../libraries/bcm2835/src/../ ; ./configure ; make)
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no

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As a result of the build, SkyView program binary will become created:

pi@raspberrypi: $ ls -l SkyView
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 1119848 Apr  3 13:16 SkyView

Use cases

Example 1. Operation together with SoftRF Dongle Edition.

pi@raspberrypi $ sudo ./SkyView

SkyView-RPi FW.REV: 0.10 DEV.ID: 58E098B
Copyright (C) 2019-2020 Linar Yusupov. All rights reserved.
Intializing E-ink display module (may take up to 10 seconds)...  done.
$PFLAU,0,0,0,1,0,,0,,,,3A052D,5,0,0*7B
$PGRMZ,820,f,3*11
$GPGGA,125858.00,,,,,0,00,,,,,,,*4B
$GNGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*00
$GNRMC,125858.00,V,,,,,,,030420,,,N*65
$PFLAU,0,0,0,1,0,,0,,,,3A052D,5,0,0*7B
$PGRMZ,820,f,3*11

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Example 2. Operation together with SoftRF Prime Mark II.

pi@raspberrypi $ sudo TTYSERIAL_DEVICE_NAME=/dev/ttyUSB0 ./SkyView

SkyView-RPi FW.REV: 0.10 DEV.ID: 58E098B
Copyright (C) 2019-2020 Linar Yusupov. All rights reserved.
Intializing E-ink display module (may take up to 10 seconds)...  done.

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Example 3. Change of radar view orientation and initial zoom level.

pi@raspberrypi $ echo "{class:SKYVIEW,orientation:TRACK,zoom:LOW}" | sudo ./SkyView

SkyView-RPi FW.REV: 0.10 DEV.ID: 58E098B
Copyright (C) 2019-2020 Linar Yusupov. All rights reserved.
Intializing E-ink display module (may take up to 10 seconds)...  done.
$PFLAU,0,0,0,1,0,,0,,,,3A052D,5,0,0*7B
$PGRMZ,820,f,3*11
$GPGGA,130514.00,,,,,0,00,,,,,,,*4A
$GNGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*00
$GNRMC,130514.00,V,,,,,,,030420,,,N*64

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