expresslrs-configurator

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ExpressLRS Configurator

ExpressLRS Configurator is a cross-platform build & configuration tool for the ExpressLRS - open source RC link for RC applications.

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Installation

We provide a standalone program for 64bit Windows, Linux and Mac.

Download the installer from Releases page.

Notes

Windows

The minimum required version of windows is Windows 8.

macOS

Changes to the security model used in the latest versions of MacOS X 10.14 (Mojave) and 10.15 (Catalina) mean that the operating system will show an error message ('"ExpressLRS Configurator.app" is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.') when trying to install the application. To work around this, run the following command in a terminal after installing:

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ExpressLRS\ Configurator.app.

Linux

Linux users have to install udev rules for PlatformIO supported boards/devices. The latest version of rules may be found at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core/master/scripts/99-platformio-udev.rules

This file must be placed at /etc/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rules (preferred location) or /lib/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rules (required on some broken systems).

Please open system Terminal and type:

# Recommended
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core/master/scripts/99-platformio-udev.rules | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rules

# OR, manually download and copy this file to destination folder
sudo cp 99-platformio-udev.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rules

Restart "udev" management tool:

sudo service udev restart
# or
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

Ubuntu/Debian users may need to add own "username" to the "dialout" group if they are not "root", doing this issuing:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev $USER

Similarly, Arch users may need to add their user to the “uucp” group

sudo usermod -a -G uucp $USER
sudo usermod -a -G lock $USER

Architecture

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|          ExpressLRS-Configurator      |
|                   |                   |
|     renderer      |        main       |
|                   |                   |
|   configurator <----->  api-server    |
|                   |          |        |
|                   |          V        |
|                   |      platformio   |
|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ | _ _ _ _|
                               V
                      ExpressLRS hardware

This Electron application is split into two parts: a local API server that does all the work, and a UI layer. Both of these application layers communicate within each other using Graphql protocol.

Heavy use of TypeScript and @graphql-codegen/cli is made throughout the repository to ensure the datatypes transmitted between the API and UI layers are consistent at compile-time and Graphql ensuring the datatypes are consistent at runtime.

Starting Development

Prerequisites

• node >=14.0
• git >= 2.25
• python >= 3.6
• platformio >= 5.0

Start the app in the dev environment:

yarn install --frozen-lockfile
yarn start

Other useful cli commands

Generate TypeScript types from Graphql schema and Queries located in src/ui/gql/queries:

yarn run gql-codegen

Screenshots

Credits

• electron-react-boilerplate