This application was developed for the Wind Tunnel in the "PWS Lab" from the TU Delft. It should be adoptable for similar projects using Phidget.
Make sure to have the Phidghet22 drivers installed.
To make sure the software works as it supposed to, please use a Virtual Environment.
Go to the root of the project directory and setup a virtual environment. This project was developed in Python 3.9.13. It should also work on other versions, but I have not tested this.
python -m venv venv
Activate the virtual environment.
call venv\Scripts\activate
Install the dependencies using the package manager pip. This should be done inside the virtual environment.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the application inside the virtual environment
python src/main_application.py
The GUI of WindReader has been created with PySide6 (A version of PyQT available under the LGPL license.). To edit the GUI follow these steps.
Run the following command in the virtual environment.
pyside6-designer
This will open the designer application of Qt. Here you can open the ui file located in ui/main.ui
.
In the editor you can edit the GUI however you want. Save the file after you are done.
To convert the gui to a python file the application can interact with, run the following command.
pyside6-uic ui/main.ui -o src/priv/mainwindow.py
Please do not edit the mainwindow.py file directly
This file will be overwritten when the previous command is executed again. Instead edit it via main_application.py
.
To compile the application to an executable which can directly be distributed without the user installing python, pyinstaller is used. To prevent windows from detecting the application as a trojan, please follow the following steps (You only have to do this once).
Make sure you are in the virtual environment.
Clone the pyinstaller repository
git clone https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller.git
Go to the root of the repository you just cloned and go the bootloader folder.
cd bootloader
Make the bootloader.
python ./waf all
return back to the root of the repository.
Add the new version of pyinstaller to pip.
pip install .
pyinstaller src/main_application.py -n WindReader -w -i resources/icon.ico
pyinstaller src/main_application.py -n WindReader -w -i resources/icon.icns
This will create an executable in the folder dist/WindReader
.
Finally, for windows users, a installer can be created. For this you can use Inno Setup. The process speaks for itself. Do make sure you include the dist/WindReader/
folder when it asks for other application files.