Hello,
I am new here and this is the first time I use a scanning sonar. I am currently running into some problem with ping360, please help me. I am trying to use the ping-python library provided to gather data for later process.
I would like to scan the area between 66 gradians to 133 gradians (which is a 60 degrees range on the side of the sonar). I tried to use the function ‘control_auto_transmit’ and set the start_angle and stop_angle, then I realised this function is not yet open to public. Is there another way to set the scanning range?
Also, when I looked at the ping protocol document, it says when operating the sonar’s mode is 1. But when I get device data, it indicates 0. This makes me confused, how can I fix it and will it impact my data output (the binary array)?
This is my code and the device data output. Thank you for looking at my problem!
Set up Ping360, initialising Ping360 and set transmit frequency, sample period........
for x in range(10):
output=p.transmitAngle(x)
print(output)
ID: 2300 - device_data
Header: start_1: 66 start_2: 82 payload_length: 214 message_id: 2300 src_device_id: 2 dst_device_id: 0
Payload:
- mode: 0
- gain_setting: 1
- angle: 0
- transmit_duration: 32
- sample_period: 80
- transmit_frequency: 500
- number_of_samples: 200
- data_length: 200
- data: ['0x83', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xe7', '0xe4', '0xea', '0xf1', '0xe7', '0xe5', '0xed', '0xf8', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xff', '0xfb', '0xf2', '0xdd', '0xce', '0xcb', '0xc4', '0xc0', '0xb1', '0xac', '0xa7', '0xa1', '0x93', '0x92', '0x99', '0x9f', '0x9d', '0xa6', '0xb1', '0xb4', '0xac', '0xa3', '0x9b', '0x92', '0x94', '0x99', '0x9f', '0x9f', '0x9b', '0x91', '0x8a', '0x79', '0x70', '0x6e', '0x70', '0x6c', '0x62', '0x6a', '0x6b', '0x65', '0x60', '0x61', '0x5e', '0x57', '0x57', '0x49', '0x47', '0x46', '0x44', '0x40', '0x41', '0x40', '0x44', '0x4a', '0x51', '0x50', '0x47', '0x48', '0x46', '0x41', '0x3b', '0x40', '0x49', '0x53', '0x5b', '0x5d', '0x58', '0x52', '0x4e', '0x49', '0x42', '0x3b', '0x36', '0x32', '0x2c', '0x2d', '0x27', '0x28', '0x29', '0x27', '0x26', '0x23', '0x25', '0x25', '0x1e', '0x1c', '0x17', '0x1b', '0x1b', '0x14', '0xb', '0x7', '0x5', '0x8', '0xb', '0xd', '0x13', '0x1b', '0x21', '0x1f', '0x20', '0x22', '0x23', '0x23', '0x24', '0x21', '0x1e', '0x23', '0x26', '0x21', '0x20', '0x20', '0x22']
Checksum: 33362 check: 33362 pass: True,