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catarrh 5a41de092c start/sniff-start: refuse to run in Windows-hosted shells
A Windows user could run the bash launchers from WSL or Git Bash / MSYS2 /
MinGW / Cygwin, where the Linux USB assumptions do not hold: WSL cannot reach
the Windows SIMtrace2 device, and those shells have no Linux /sys + /dev/bus/usb
view for the udev pre-flight.  Both launchers now detect a Windows host up
front (WSL via /proc/version, the rest via uname -s) and exit 2 with a pointer
at the matching .bat launcher, which drives the Windows Python/PyUSB stack.
The message goes to stderr; a deliberate WSL/Cygwin flow can still run the
Python module directly (noted in the source comment).

Tests: tests/test_launchers.py runs each script with a fake mingw uname and
asserts exit 2 plus the start.bat/sniff-start.bat pointer, pins the WSL
detection, and checks bash -n syntax (skipped when bash is absent).

Bumps 2.7.14 (version.py, pyproject, PWA_VERSION), SW cache v96, the README
download examples and the release-notes preamble.  561 Python + 80 Node tests.
2026-11-04 19:30:41 +03:00

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Install the wheel below — the PWA is bundled inside it:

pip install ./simtrace_analyser-*.whl
simtrace-analyser-server --capture gsmtap

The UI is then served at http://127.0.0.1:8081/. If your system Python is externally managed (PEP 668 — common on Arch and Fedora), install into a virtual environment first (python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate).

The source archive is the same tree a clone would have: unzip it and run ./start.sh (Linux/macOS) or start.bat (Windows). Direct SIMtrace2 capture on Linux additionally needs the attached 70-simtrace2-pysniff.rules udev rule.

The .sh launchers are for Linux/macOS only: on Windows use start.bat / sniff-start.bat from cmd.exe or PowerShell (WSL, Git Bash, MSYS2, MinGW and Cygwin are refused).

Runtime zip (no installer) — simtrace-analyser-*.zip is the runtime tree only (packages, PWA, launchers, docs — no tests, no git): extract it anywhere and run start.bat (Windows) or ./start.sh (Linux/macOS). Python 3 has to be on PATH; pip install pyusb is only needed for direct SIMtrace2 capture.

The project is MIT-licensed (see LICENSE).