Random Yamcs related things that don't fit anywhere else

yamcs serial front-end

Script for routing Yamcs TC/TM over a serial line.

json2ccsds

Hosted at https://codeberg.org/lars_uffmann/json2ccsds.

Software package to generate CCSDS telemetry from CSV-like text files, using a JSON telemetry definition, from which a yamcs compatible TM definition is generated.

Applications include:

json2ccsds

The actual TM streaming application, featuring:

• monitoring of inotify filesystem events for the CSV files (source data) to track, to detect appended lines, or moves & file creation
• conversion of a record in the source data into CCSDS (including checksum) as per the JSON definition provided
• validation of the source data against the JSON definition is performed
• streaming of resulting CCSDS TM to configurable UDP or TCP destinations
• separate destinations for "AOS" (online link) and "LOS" (offline link), allowing use of existing services for transmission of offline data
• regular link status detection via ping to AOS and LOS hosts
• configurable TM buffer (up to 60 seconds) for seamless switchover (no packet loss) when an LOS is detected

NOTE: when last checked (Win10), inotify file system events were not implemented correctly on WSL, and therefore this application only works properly on true Linux systems.

json2mdb

An application that generates a telemetry definition in an XLSX spreadsheet (two, actually, separating the ccsds generic definition from the TM specific definition), compatible with the yamcs spreadsheet loader. NOTE: This requires opening the resulting XLSX in an office application and saving it as .XLS - at least until yamcs supports XLSX. Features:

• lightweight JSON definition for easy description of CSV-like source data
• regular expressions (top level) to parse a record (allows parsing syslog-like files that can not be parsed like CSV)
• built-in ISO date type
• recursive field extraction (allows to separate e.g. 2025-01-28T12:00:00.123456 into separate date, time and microsecond fields if desired)
• lookup tables for encoding discrete values in numeric parameters (e.g. OFF -> 0, ON -> 1)
• validation of the provided JSON definition
• automatically derives required data type precision from given JSON parameter ranges
• generated TM definitions for different projects can be used (loaded by yamcs) in parallel (due to separation of CCSDS header definitions)

slowRead

A trivial application to read from existing CSV files and play back a line at a time to the console - can be used to simulate a TM stream for json2ccsds (by redirecting output to the monitored source data files).

tcp-server-bridge

As the TCP link of json2ccsds acts as a TCP client, and yamcs TCP TM link does the same, this application acts as a bridge between the two, but is so generic in function, that it can provide the same service to any two TCP clients. Features:

• provides two TCP servers, listening on configurable ports, accepting 1 connection each
• forwards data from connected clients to each other

When a stream of CCSDS telemetry is available from a TCP client only, this client and yamcs can both connect to the tcp-server-bridge and yamcs will be able to receive this data.