First Major Alpha Release for AH-Control

Hello everybody:

I am excited to share with you the first major alpha release for AH-Control (v0.2.0), a major milestone in the technical development of the AH-series telescopes and PART.

Functionalities

Most importantly: this application was experimentally verified to work. So it is no longer just a buggy RAM-hogger but it actually does things!

To recap:

• RTL-SDR data collection logic was fixed
• Signal visualisation window is still buggy
• Finalised the spreadsheet functionality (with plans to extend it in the near future)
• Verified that RTL-SDR connection + data collection and logic works
• Introduced a Lesson Wizard for teaching
• Settings works (UI needs a fix though)
• You can also generate your own random sources to use if you don’t have a dongle.
• Among other things

To see how it works, go to the Help dropdown in the menu.

(This is still technically a pre-release, so be careful of bugs. I haven’t seen it crash my computer though, so should be safe)

Unfortunately at this stage, I only have an installer for ARM-64 MacOS; I will also make one for Linux later, but I am unsure about Windows and Intel Macs. If anybody can contribute in this direction, PART will be super grateful! But you can always clone the git and run the application in a development environment.

Installation

Now, this binary should contain most things except librtlsdr. You need to install it first via homebrew: brew install librtlsdr, and use all default values. The application should automatically find the library and should, after that, run successfully.

If you can’t run the binary, I suggest you clone the git and run the application in a development environment. For more information, go to installation.md.