#apertus IRC Channel Logs

off to bed now ... have a good one everyone!

morning folks!

welcome to our IRC channel!

Thanks

sure

My experience includes working as a project intern at Defense Research and Development Organisation, I have also interned as UI/UX designer for Skilling You and EasyPG, helping them create meaning user interfaces for their digital services. I have undertaken various projects from evaluating Cognitive behavior of individuals to developing complete corporate identity of cloud gaming company "Aurora". I have undertaken various certifications from reputed

If you have any requirement for a Design Intern both in office or work from home, do reach me out!

(updated resume attached)

https://www.adityaban.com/

yaa

Yup, kind of that only

did you explore our website/wiki a bit already and looked at the things we are working on currently?

could you please repeat after my last message

<Aditya> Yup, kind of that only

<se6ast1an> did you explore our website/wiki a bit already and looked at the things we are working on currently?

http://irc.apertus.org/index.php?day=18&month=05&year=2020#40

To get an idea of what apertus does

I'm more into User research that goes onto building a great user experience of interactions, I'm a design student. Anything that involves a redesign or any research required for that

It could be related to designing a better experience of software

or anything where you think you require help

The AXIOM Remote: https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/AXIOM_Remote

https://files.niemo.de/Screenshot_2019-12-09%20AXIOM-web.png

https://files.niemo.de/Screenshot_2019-12-16%20AXIOM-web.png

I think

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I'm comfortable with both of them

can you explain a bit how you would like to work or what you would like to do?

certainly

At first I would start by studying the current UI, it's goal and functions then will analyse the target audience and how current Ui serving to them. Then will conduct Research on what could be more optimal, like finding better ico design and button placement for more reach or what color at what places are required or what should be the navigation

Some other similar things, based on which I could present a ideation of redesigns

so you would write an analysis report and create concept art for improvements/redesigns?

sounds good

keep in mind that the software and GUI is very much work in progress

yes

to keep everyone in the loop

next one starts in 30 minutes

Cool I could present what I did in that meetings

We could have discussion on same

another idea (maybe in addition) would be to maintain/fill/extend a wiki page about your project:https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Main_Page

I could update what I did there

okay

nodejs + yarn for the webui, rust for nctrl

you will need a linux operating system for that

I'll have that

do you feel confident? :)

Yup it would be a challenge

as a virtuaization might be more straight forward (virtualbox for example)

that's true

cool, thanks for that

anyway, whenever you have a question or need help/support come here and ask

we do expect some independence though

thanks for that

ok, I added some basic instructions for the control daemon here: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/nctrl/blob/master/Readme.md#getting-started

which works together with these here: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/webui#develop

sure,will do that

Aditya68: if you run into problems feel free to ping me, even if I don't respond immediately I will be reading the IRC log and answer when I come back. You should probably also read the log (http://irc.apertus.org/) to avoid missing any responses in case your IRC client cuts out

http://irc.apertus.org/

will take note of it

last monday: http://irc.apertus.org/index.php?day=11&month=05&year=2020#132

MEETING TIME!

please direct message me now if you want to report and I will put everyone into order

*started

thanks sebastian!

so last week i build the kernel for both the betas and set them up (along with vup and bertl)

"both the betas" you mean the remote access betas bertl is operating right?

great!

i could not actually code anything yet though, i realized i had to read a lot of stuff about the i2c subsystem in linux, do did mostly that

but i'll get coding soon... i have everything i need for building and running the kernel driver

that's it from my side!

I am sure Bertl will help you with the questions you have or the information you need soon

alright!

in the last meeting I had reported that i created a makefile for the image conversion which was quite longer so first i shorten it (used wildcards etc)

this is how i tried to create all the image header files which look good (but maybe Bertl wants to improve something ;)

you might want to make good use of the 'unix pipelining' instead of creating temporary files with fixed names

the reason for this is that once you have a bunch of images you want to convert and you run make with parallel building to speed up things, you'll get some strange effects

also i connected successfully with the remote-remote and today i flashed firmware and bootloader in that

so that's it from my side :)

note that commited a breaking build yesterday so if you flash the latest code its expected to not be working right now

yes, although I'm not sure whether the firmware was working as intended, so we should double check that :)

*note that I commited

noted ;)

preetimenghwani[: you are next

Firstly I tried to understand the current pixel remapper but it was quite tricky, so could only get an overview, then i read about the different types of memory resources available, discussed with bertl about the current remapper and the sequence used by it, also discussed ideas on how things can be improved, read about the zynq architecture(i.e the components of PS and PL), the types of AXI interfaces(stream and

Thats it from my side :)

BAndiT1983: please share your rich progress

don't know if rich progress or not, but had to change a bit my field of activity, besides remote firmware and visualiser

done some fixes and adjustments for them, but had a plan to finalize the virtual camera preview and serial communication

number 1: for the sony e-mount sniffing we need a possibility to use 3.0V, to prevent damages to the lens and MCU

as i had no suitable tools for replacement, also a heat gun soldering station was ordered, now i'm trying to get comfortable with the usage of it and modify the teensy for schmoggie1

number 2: had to return to the scene of my previous crime, namely a python script for extracting the positions of elements on a PCB for the PCB probe machine

example images of my attempts are currently here: https://superuser.com/questions/999581/pipe-and-stdin-redirection-to-cat

after last analysis it was clear that a grouping/clustering of pads is required which are too far apart, but belong to some package which has the origin in the center, this is what i will try to do after soldering adventure

anything to report about the panelzation scripting efforts of PCBs?

this is another python-based development, using pcb-tools and pcb-tools extension, former one for loading Gerber data which was exported from EAGLE, latter one for panelization, the results are rather promising, also using ezdxf to creation additional elements, like special paths or texts

great!

now that would be it (quite some typos when typing fast ;) )

vup you have some news for us as well!

On mobile so bear with me...

From the top of my head he completed the knob button pressing feature in the AXIOM Remote visualizer in the last week and is now working on the button down event registration in the visualizer.

Instead of the clock generator mentioned last time (5P49V6965) we decided to go for a simple fixed frequency (100Mhz) crystal oscillator (SG5032VAN) because we don't actually need the flexibility of a clock generator if we just want to usb c.

After that we investigated the camlink 4k further, as it seems like a nice and cheap solution to record footage from the micro and beta until we have our own recorder.

I also hopefully fixed most of the bringup-scripts on the new firmware, so Bertl can finally also use the new firmware.

Apart from any questions that would be it

I'll get to that when I report

thanks vup!

from my side it was mostly AXIOM Remote GUI progress: a new numeric selection dialog (with parameters: minimum, maximum, step size and suffix), example video: https://lab.apertus.org/T1177#17130

as the raw image conversion/development progresses with maxime and bertrand in brussels I would like to create an article/guide/tutorial

but I am not sure who and when exactly...

thats it from my side

okay, so I've spent most of the time adjusting the GSoC remote setup

we decided to add to the current setup with two remotes (v0.9 and v0.14 one)

the current setup now also has an RPi which basically functions as signal generator

this allows us to generate test images on the RPi and capture them via the CamLink4K

we extended the scripts to interact with the CamLink4K to be able to dump the register settings on the IT6801 (the HDMI receiver)

and currently it looks like the receiver is not able to process the signal properly

and the remote control shield for the Axiom Remote on the first beta

this is something I plan to investigate and test in the next few days

is the remote setup documented somewhere already?

right, would make sense to update/replace this wiki page then: https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/AXIOM_Beta_Remote_Access

as this setup is likely to stay in your reach and not move to the office anytime soon

and the results are both promising and disappointing

they are labeled as 'Read up to 420MB/s' and 'Write up to 400MB/s'

well it says "up to" :P

so no idea under what condition thos are supposed to reach 400MB/s, probably only if you do not write anything

and the results there are not great either, but that is probably due to the SSDs I'm currently using, which are supposed to do 450MB/s sustained write but only achieve about 80MB/s on the ultra-96

the good news is that an USB read over USB-SATA achieves 2x 200MB/s so a total of 400MB/s which is the real world maximum of the USB bus

I also extended some of the bringup scripts to work with the new hardware

I guess that's it from my side ...

many thanks

many thanks everyone for attending!

good night