awesome, i gonna take a look at the C++ examples. thought it could be a challenge of making a webui for a device running linuxcnc on a lattepanda or a beaglebone black from there. And using a mesa card for removing the load from the lightweight controller easily. =)
// Andreas Den 2016-11-29 kl. 16:40, skrev Sebastian Kuzminsky: > On 11/29/2016 07:34 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: >> Would there be something that limits one to implement a UI for LinuxCNC >> as a restful service >> in say Python - that would listen to like port 8080 and take commands like >> >> /moveXAxis/positive/10/mm >> >> Why, cuz i want to. And i guess one could bind a zeromq realtime >> component into it or something like that >> being able to abstrac it to a RTC based UI on a tablet or a phone. > Yep, this is totally doable. > > The LinuxCNC motion control core talks to the user interfaces via a > message passing system called NML. Multiple UIs can be connected to the > motion controller at the same time, as is commonly done with (for > example) Axis and halui. > > Your web-based UI would look and act (to the motion controller) just > like any other UI, and the motion controller wouldn't know or care that > it presents a web interface instead of a graphical user interface on the > other side. > > New UIs can most easily be written in C, C++, or Python. > > All the UIs live in src/emc/usr_intf/. The simplest C/C++ example is > probably halui, though i'd recommend using the shcom library (also in > src/emc/usr_intf) for writing new C/C++ UIs. > > The simplest Python example might actually be some of our test programs, > for example tests/abort/feed-rate/test-ui.py. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
