HASviolet: Developing News.....

The HVDN HASviolet team have been "mostly" hard at work toiling on our next software release over the past month.  This article is meant as a tease only to entice you to check out our Git repository and to stock up on some HASviolet Certified hardware.

We expect that as COVID-19 goes back into hiding, people will want to get out and enjoy some nice weather enabled by technology that is safe and able to promote social distancing. Our goal was to develop some really fun and unique use cases to let people ease back into normal society.

Explaining some of the above

We have covered our basic applications in past articles, such as HASviolet Beacon and HASviolet Chat along with the receive and transmit applications used to enable other future applications.  Now, lets talk about.....

HASviolet-atmos.py - Provides temperature, barometric and other environmental sensor data integration.

HASviolet-distance.py - Support for laser based distance sensors related to our "Duck Hunt" series of radio direction finding (RDF) applications which will be ready for Amateur Radio Field Day 2020. 

HASviolet-GPS.py - When executed, allows the transmission of standard NMEA 0183 formatted location data and telemetry along with the call sign specified in your HASviolet.ini file 

HASviolet-handheld.py - This is a stand alone application which when enabled allows navigation and control of various function using the buttons on the Adafruit Lora bonnet as well as future supported hardware. This will be helpful for "basic field use" when a computer or smartphone is not available.

How to get started with HASviolet

If you are just learning about HASviolet and do not wish to go through our detailed documentation and user guide, here is what you need to do.

Step 1 - Buy Hardware 

Step 2 - Image an SD card with Raspbian 

Step 3 - Follow the basic OS set up requirements 

Step 4 - Run our installation script 

Step 5 - Start having fun with HASviolet

 Please have a look at hvdn.org/violet for more details