Some more information - "official" api documentation about gammascoututil HOT 5 OPEN

Hi Gabriel,

thanks for the info -- back when I wrote the original gammascoututil, there was no public documentation whatsoever. Luckily the protocol isn't too difficult to reverse engineer. Still in the docs you referenced, all the juicy parts are missing (i.e., the actual conversion from counts/time to dose/time), something I took a stab at back in April: #1

Back on the topic, I'm not really sure what to do with the documentation. Is something not working correctly as it is implemented right now? Or is that purely for reference, so that I put a link in the README?

Cheers, Joe

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Hi, I have not been able to run your software.
I have bought the FW >= 6.90 version (online).

From FW >= 6.90, serial is 460800,7,e,1.
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 460800,cs7

By doing this changes, I've seen other problems probably related to the version of my gamma scout.

To get the value, I have to press "X", then "R".
I think it only works with the "online" version.

Online-Mode beendet
0,110 uSv/h
0,111 uSv/h
0,111 uSv/h

I think the "protocol" is a disaster :)
I think the way the connector to the usb device is just terrible.
I read ~0,110 uSv/h and 0.140 uSv/h on another one that is 1 meter away.

I've started to write a project in c++ that send the data to a mqtt server.
(It's a good way to refresh my memory in c++ :) )

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Ah, got it! True, the GS-online isn't supported at the moment.

To be honest, it's quite difficult for me to expand the software, though, without access to actual hardware, so I'll be honest and say that extending the scope of it all is quite unlikely.

Oh boy you can't believe how much I agree with you how horrific the GS protocol is. You don't have a well-defined way to find out what state it is in, you cannot interrupt log dumping, etc. etc. Complete trainwreck.

The worst thing, in my opinion, is the missing documentation of the calibration. That's the ONE thing you, as the customer, are paying for and yet you only get it through that atrocious "Toolbox", an absolute horrific piece of software as well (though the re-written .Net version is a million times better than that unimaginably terrible garbage that preceded it).

If I'd start looking into gammascoututil again, I think I'd also redo a few things here and there. Might rewrite the whole thing. Might just get around to doing it.

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FWIW, I have started to implement "v3" protocol in my fork of this project. It takes a while to get to know the code but the basics are in place for now. Need to read through the issues here and try to fix the calibration as well.
I have a 7.02 w/alert model, so am unable to try the online stuff.

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