ALTOSUI(1)

🎀 ALTOSUI(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the ALTOSUI(1) page from the General Commands Manual 💅 this is your guide to the one and only altosui ✨

✨ NAME ✨

altosui is a Rocket flight monitor 🚀 it's giving mission control energy 🛸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

altosui

that's the whole synopsis, no cap 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so altosui connects to a TeleDongle or a TeleMetrum device through a USB serial device 🔌 it gives you a menu-oriented user interface so you can monitor, record and review rocket flight data. main character energy 🦋

✨ USAGE ✨

when you hook up a TeleDongle, altosui switches on the radio receiver and starts listening for telemetry packets 📡 it shows you the telemetry data as it comes in, and reports flight status out loud through voice synthesis 🗣️ every bit of received telemetry gets recorded to a file 💾 iconic.

when you hook up a TeleMetrum, altosui can configure the TeleMetrum 🛠️ it can also download the eeprom data and store it in a file 🧚

a bunch of other menu options exist too, including the ability to export flight data in different formats 📤 lowkey so many options 😭

✨ FILES ✨

all data log files get saved into a user-specified directory, which defaults to ~/TeleMetrum 📁 the files are named using the current date, the serial number of the reporting device, and the flight number recorded in the data. the ending is either .telem for telemetry data or .eeprom for eeprom data 🌸

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Keith Packard 🫶 the legend himself 👑

that's the whole tea, bestie 🍓 altosui from ALTOSUI(1), we're so back 💖✨