Morse¶

The Morse application is a (admittedly not very useful) demo program, that relays a Morse encoded ASCII message through the speakers of a total station. The signals are played with the man-machine interface beep signals of the instrument.

Requirements¶

GeoCOM capable instrument

Examples¶

Morse on a TPS100 instrument¶

iman morse -c TPS1000 COM1 "Old instrument"

Slower and quieter¶

iman morse -u 500 -i 20 COM1 "Slow and quiet"

Usage¶

iman morse¶

Play a Morse encoded ASCII message through the beep signals.

This command requires a GeoCOM capable total station, that supports the required audio signal types (TPS1000 to TPS1200+, VivaTPS seem to have changed the commands, and they are not documented).

This command requires a GeoCOM capable instrument up to TPS1200.

iman morse [OPTIONS] PORT MESSAGE

Options

-i, --intensity <intensity>¶: Beeping intensity

-u, --unittime <unittime>¶: Beep unit time in milliseconds [ms]

-c, --compatibility <compatibility>¶

Instrument compatibility

Options:¶: none | TPS1000

--ignore-non-ascii¶: Suppress encoding errors and skip non-ASCII characters

-b, --baud <baud>¶

Serial speed

Options:¶: 1200 | 2400 | 4800 | 9600 | 19200 | 38400 | 56000 | 57600 | 115200 | 230400 | 921600

-t, --timeout <timeout>¶: Serial timeout

-a, --attempts <attempts>¶: Number of connection attempts

--sync-after-timeout¶: Attempt to synchronize message que after a timeout

Arguments

PORT¶

Required argument

Serial port that the instrument is connected to (must be a valid identifier like COM1 or /dev/usbtty0)

MESSAGE¶

Required argument

Message to relay as a string of ASCII characters