DistoX

Device

The famous DistoX designed for cave surveying. Combines Leica device and extension board to provide distance, inclination and azimuth over Bluetooth communication. CaveSurvey should work with both DistoX v1 and v2. No calibration is available.

http://paperless.bheeb.ch/

Protocol

Binary serial protocol is documented here and here.

Credits to SexyTopo for the implementation used in CaveSurvey.

Usage

• Select all measurements over Bluetooth
• First select what you are measuring (the leg/up/right.../vector etc), then operate the device
• Each measurement is read and deleted from the device
• When vectors reading mode is "save on receive" and "Add vector" dialog is openned all in memory shots are stored as vectors (and removed from device)