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diff --git a/ao-view/ao-view.1 b/ao-view/ao-view.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..99834c4e --- /dev/null +++ b/ao-view/ao-view.1 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright © 2009 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> +.\" +.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but +.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU +.\" General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +.\" with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +.\" 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. +.\" +.\" +.TH AO-VIEW 1 "ao-view" "" +.SH NAME +ao-view \- Rocket flight monitor +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B "ao-view" +[\--tty \fItty-device\fP] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I ao-view +connects to a TeleDongle or TeleMetrum device through a USB serial device. +It provides a user interface to monitor, record and review rocket flight data. +.SH OPTIONS +The usual Gtk+ command line options can be used, along with +.IP "\--tty" +This selects a target device to connect at startup time to. +The target device may also be selected through the user interface. +.SH USAGE +When connected to a TeleDongle device, ao-view turns on the radio +receiver and listens for telemetry packets. It displays the received +telemetry data, and reports flight status via voice synthesis. All +received telemetry information is recorded to a file. +.P +When connected to a TeleMetrum device, ao-view downloads the eeprom +data and stores it in a file. +.SH FILES +All data log files are recorded into a user-specified directory +(default ~/AltOS). Files are named using the current date, the serial +number of the reporting device, the flight number recorded in the data +and either '.telem' for telemetry data or '.eeprom' for eeprom data. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +ao-load(1), ao-eeprom(1) +.SH AUTHOR +Keith Packard |