How to Prepare the Ground Station

Go to: http://www.digi.com/support/productdetai...

Click on the proper download link for your machine.

Follow the steps in the download, and the program is ready for use!

First go to http://www.python.org/getit/

Download the proper version of Python 2.7.x for your machine. X can be anything as long as it's 2.7.

Follow the steps in the installation and make note of where you installed it on your machine.

Your next step is adding python to your environmental variables on your computer.

For a PC, go to start, and search for "environmental variables".

Next click the "Path" variable and the edit button.

Insert a semi colon followed by the destination where Python was installed. For my example: ;C:/Python27

Then make sure to click Ok on both windows.

We will now download Pyserial from here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial

Hit the green download button.

Use WinRar or any other program to extract the files. You want to extract them in your Python27\Lib\site-packages\. So for my example, mine will go: c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages-\

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