ARPIST

ARPIST is an acronym for Autonomous Rocket Pointer Interactive Simulation of Telemetry (ARPIST in short).

In brief, ARPIST is a tool for simulating the transmission of telemetry data from a local device connected via serial port to a board with a radio module equipped, in order to test ARP response to data in a testing environment.

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Rust: Rust need to be installed on the machine where you want to build and run ARPIST. You can find the installation instructions here.

Installation

If you want to install ARPIST on your machine, you can do it with the following command:

cargo install --git ssh://git@git.skywarder.eu/federico.lolli/arpist.git

Developing

If you want to develop ARPIST, you can clone the repository and build it with the following commands:

git clone git@git.skywarder.eu:federico.lolli/arpist.git
cd arpist
cargo build --release

The executable will be located in the target/release folder.

Usage

ARPIST needs a board with a radio module connected to a serial port to work. The board must have a specific entrypoint flashed, which can be found on the Boardcore repo, here precisely.

Once the board has the correct entrypoint flashed, is connected to the serial port and the serial port, you can run ARPIST with the following command:

arpist --port <serial_port> <telemetry_file>

Where <serial_port> is the serial port where the board is connected and <telemetry_file> is the file containing the telemetry data to send to the board.

NOTE: if a single STM32 compatible board is connected to the serial port, ARPIST will automatically detect it and use it, so you can omit the --port <serial_port> option.