Developer Guide

Integrate and use the Voyant Carbon 30 toolkit.

This guide provides detailed installation instructions, sample code, and API references for systems running Python or C++. There is additional information provided about using Docker to run Voyant’s API in provided containers.


We package two Debian packages always available at voyant-sdk/releases/latest.

Windows tooling that mirrors the voyant-api tools is also available as a .zip at the same location. See the Windows API Tools guide.

Python Bindings

Python bindings are available on PyPI starting with v0.4.4 and are compatible with both Meadowlark and Carbon systems:

pip install voyant-api

See the Installation Guide for full details including virtual environment setup.

Linux Debian Packages

  • voyant-api: Binaries, command line utilities, and the Voyant Visualizer
  • voyant-api-dev: Header files, static libraries, etc.
    • Depends on voyant-api

What’s Included

The voyant-api package is all you need to:

  • Connect to your sensor
  • Stream, record, and visualize data (the Voyant Visualizer is available on both Linux and Windows)
  • Configure your sensor (Coming Soon…)

The voyant-api-dev package exists for the developer community and enables:

  • Building and running the C++ examples in the voyant-sdk repository
  • Developing your own C++ applications that process Voyant LiDAR data
  • voyant-api-dev is not available for Windows users, except through Docker

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