Chasemapper expansion project

[mpkleine]

Greetings,

I was asked to help a local high school / technical center pre-engineering team obtain balloon data and provide it to their project via a USB serial port. They built a pointer that points to the balloon as it flies through the sky in real time. I found the Chasemapper function and created a project to listen for that UDP data and convert it to serial data. While the function has worked perfectly for the past week or so, the documentation of the function was minimal. (enable, IP address, port)

The C# .net project is called ChaseMappr and is available here on GitHub as:
https://github.com/mpkleine/ChaseMappr.

While the project may not match the requirements of other folks, I have documented the process, timing, and JSON formatting that comes out of the device via UDP and have included a working compiled installation and the code used.

Thanks for the great software and feel free to share this as you see fit.

Mark

[darksidelemm]

Worth pointing out that radiosonde_auto_rx has had the ability to control an azimuth/elevation rotator for a very very long time now: https://github.com/projecthorus/radiosonde_auto_rx/wiki/Configuration-Settings#controlling-an-azimuthelevation-rotator-via-rotctld
It just needs something which 'looks like' a rotctld server to talk to.