Program with GUI to monitor different systems (telescopes, weather, environement, electricity, etc.) at Observatorio Cerro Murphy.

Requirements:

• python 3
• PyQt6
• astropy
• matplotlib

poetry run ocam --env <envname>

where <envname> is the name of the settings section (e.g. kitchen)

Edit oca_monit_tabs.py and add new tab name to the "tabList" (the and of the file)

Edit oca_monit_telescopes.py and add new telescope name to the "telescopesList" (the and of the file)

Usually installing oca monitor on RPi is a nightmare (poetry install cannot install several python libraries and it has to be done manually, which is also problematic) then it is much better to make a copy of a SD card of working RPi with oca_monitor already installed. A copy is available on a pendrive. Everything you have to do is to insert pendrive to some PC (or your laptop) with SD card slot. Insert also a new (or used but not needed) SD card and check in /dev/ what is the name of pendrive and SD card (disconnect pendrive list content of /dev/ directory, and then connect it and see what appeard, it should be something like /dev/sd..., repeat the procedure for SD card). Then use the command:

dd bs=4M if=/dev/pendrive_name of=/dev/sd_name status=progress

Wait about 10 minutes. When it is ready you can insert SD card to RPi and boot. Now you just have to change the host name (in Raspberry Menu>Preferences>Raspberry Pi Configuration). Then make sure that the mac address of the new RPi is different from already existing in the network (it has to be different, but make sure :)). Now your RPi is configured and you can run oca monitor.

To add application icon to the menu you have to symlink the desktop file to the ~/.local/share/applications/ directory. The desktop files are located in the desktop directory of the project. The command to do this is e.g:

ln -s /src/oca_monitor/desktop/tvroom.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ocam.desktop