This page describes how to calibrate the TRAX IMU in Linux.

*To calibrate the TRAX IMU, PNI Trax Studio must be used, which can be found here. You will also need the user manual which details how various calibrations should be performed.

*Since PNI Trax Studio is a windows application you will also need Wine installed. <NOTE: Calibration must be performed on the sub!>

  sudo aptitude install wine-stable winehq-stable

*With Wine installed, install PNI Trax Studio using default/recommended setup.

  unzip TRAX-Studio-1.0.2.zip
  wine msiexec /i TRAX-Studio-1.0.2.msi

or

  wine start TRAX-Studio-1.0.2.msi

With TRAX Studio installed, we need to make sure TRAX Studio will recognize our IMU. To do this we need to link our virtual COM ports to our TRAX device. To do this we create a symbolic link between the two. With the latest versions of wine (wine 3.0.3 as of writing) we must edit our windows registry to connect these devices.

*Follow the steps according to the wine wiki using any COM and the value /dev/TRAX

*For earlier versions of wine (prior to 2.8) use

  ln -s /dev/TRAX ~/.wine/dosdevices/com

replacing the com on the end with the com device you wish to connect.

*To run TRAX Studio after setup, simply start it as any other wine program

  wine .wine/drive_c/{path to file}

*When launched, you will want to select the COM port you linked to the TRAX in the previous section and click connect.

*Follow the instructions detailed in the user manual under Section 5, User Calibration. (Typically Full-Range Calibration).

*Further information on operation of TRAX Studio can be found in the manual under Section 6, Operation With Trax Studio.