Pysolar Sent from mobile
> On Jul 4, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got a project I'm working on to make a sophisticated sundial with moving > mirrors. I've got a batch of Arduinos that move the mirrors to the > appropriate places, given the current sun angle, etc. > > I've got a beaglebone that runs some python code to calculate sun angle based > on time > > The beaglebone will have a GPS feeding it to get time. > > BUT now, I'd like to add a web interface, so that it can be manipulated by a > mobile device using a browser. > > One way I can think of is to run some sort of limited web server. there are a > couple that come with the beaglebone, including the python "simplehttpserver". > > But I'm sort of stuck on the interface between the webserver and the other > code running. > > I've done this kind of thing where the one task goes out and updates files in > the tree that's being served by the web server, and that works fine for > "status display" kinds of things that don't update very quickly. It's also > nicely partitioned. > > but I want to be able to change the behavior of the system (e.g. by having > the server respond to a PUT or something) > > Is the best scheme to go in and modify the webserver code to look for > specific URLs requested, and then fire off some custom code to do what I want? > > I'm not particularly interested in javascript, and would prefer python. > > > Or are there libraries that make this more cookbook? (the little "getting > started with beaglebone" book talks about flask) > > There's quite a few websites out there where someone has done some sort of > "home automation", but they tend to be a bit light on the analysis of pros > and cons of implementation architectures: "I built X using Y and Z and it > sort of works". > > > Actually, along a similar line.. my "solar position" code isn't very pretty > (it's sort of replicating some code I wrote in Basic a long time ago, with > some changes from stuff I cribbed from ccmatlab). If someone knows of a > python package that just "does this", I'd love to hear about it. Either Az > El, or X,Y,Z in ECI or ECF would do. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
