Installation

Windows Prerequisites

You will need to install python 3.7+ and the RAD Drivers for your probe to work on Windows 10.

Python installation

It is preferable to download python from the website for install.

  1. Go to you python downloads page and at least python 3.7 or later.

  1. Run the installer, making sure to enable the Add Python 3.X to path this option shows up when you first start the installer see below. This will ensure you have the scripts installed on your local path

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  1. Using radicl on windows is best done through conda’s terminal. If you dont have it, download conda and install it.

  1. Check the install by opening up anacondas terminal and running:

    python --version

    Which should print out some thing like:

    >> Python 3.11.1

  2. If everything works as expected, continue on to the drivers installation guide

RAD Drivers Install

Windows will not automatically find drivers for the Lyte probe. Follow the instructions below to install them.

  1. Download driver installation script from Radicl on Github

  1. Double click to launch the install in your downloads and follow the prompts.

If you have correctly installed the drivers move on to Install radicl. below.

Linux - Ubuntu Prerequisites

  • Python 3.7+

  • TKinter

Installing TKinter on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

If you get permission denied in the error when first using radicl you may need to add:

groups ${USER}
sudo gpasswd --add ${USER} dialout

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

Install radicl

Installing radicl depends on your end use:

  1. Installing to only take measurements, Follow instruction to Install radicl for Users Only.

  2. Installing to develop radicl source code, Follow instructions to Install radicl for Developers.

Install radicl for Users Only

  1. Install the latest stable release of radicl by running this command in your preferred terminal:

pip install radicl

  1. Test the installation by, plugging in your probe to the computer, open a terminal or conda shell and run:

    radicl

    This should show some logging statements saying that your probe was found and present you with a question that says:

    What do you want to do with the probe? (daq, settings, update, help, exit)

Once you have completed the setup, head over to Usage to see what tools are available to you!

Install radicl for Developers

The sources for radicl can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/AdventureData/radicl

Or download the tarball:

$ curl  -OL https://github.com/AdventureData/radicl/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ python setup.py install