With so many emails on this list I worry it was lost in the action. Was a clear enough? I just need to run a thread or something inthe background so that I can keep the robot heart ticking while the user decides on an action. BR, Jason Brower
On Dec 17, 11:44 am, encompass <[email protected]> wrote: > Therobotdoes some cool stuff that has never been done before. I > just can tell you because of business rules. It is a very expensive > commercial device. When it is released, I will inform everyone here. > Well, I have one app right now. This seems to be the biggest issue: > I send data to therobotand I get a response in a second or two if > the movement happened successfully. I need that data but should I > really while loop until I get the response? That would slow down the > response in the webUI. > I also get a heartbeat ever second or more. I need to send responses > that I have successfully read the hardbeat. It should be automatically > done outside of the gui. > It's pretty crazy, but the web interface opens a huge door of > opportunity for thisrobot. I am using pySerial for communication. > So in other words, I have 2 parts that I know I need. > One for the web application, GUI, database of information, commands torobot > Two is the loop of logic (I call it the "Logical Loop of Love") It > contains checks of the data coming in from therobotand a list of > movement/init commands that are going to be sent to therobot. It > also handles the hardbeat and certain things like timeouts and other > information. I was thinking of creating a thread of the Logic Loop > and then accessing and retrieving data from that, but don't know if > that is even possible or the best way. Others tell me twisted is the > way to go, but I would like to stay with as much web2py as possible. > Regards, > Jason > > On Dec 17, 9:24 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am not sure I understand but sounds very cool. What does therobot. > > > I may be mistaken but if I understand you have two web apps. One talks > > to therobotand one talks to you. Your question is how do they > > exchange information? My advice is merge the two apps into one app > > with two controllers (one for you and one for therobot), the use > > cache.ram to store information that needs to be passed between them. > > > On Dec 17, 12:51 am, encompass <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am creating arobotinterface in web2py. > > > I am making great progress as I can send commands and other what not > > > to therobotand make it do it's thang, but I find problems in > > > monitoring signals from the device. > > > Therobotsends "heartbeat" requests about ever 5 seconds, if it doesn > > > get a response from the computer that it is also alive, then it will > > > panic and start sending requests ever .5 second until it gets a > > > response. > > > Should I create another web application that connects with this web > > > application that simply response through serial to keep things alive? > > > I think I am close with this approach: > > > I have create a loop sequence that checks the states of the machine, > > > depending on what the machine is doing and what responses it gets it > > > changes it's status. The next time it goes through the loop it > > > updates itself. This is very nice, as it can quickly handle the > > > requests. Is there a way to run that, and then my webapp and probe > > > that states or change states of variables in that loop to make things > > > happen in therobot? Sounds crazy, but by doing this I can create a > > > universal interface for myrobotand run myrobotwith a cellphone, > > > webtablet or anything with an internet connection. > > > Best Regards, > > > Jason Brower -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
