Thanks for you suggestion, i'll take a look. On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:52:47 UTC+1, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > > I think you're not going to have good results with web2py for this > kind of project. > I'd encourage you to take a look at projects as > http://mblogic.sourceforge.net/ , which using python (and a bit of > javascript) allows you to control, and report or easily showing > animated bars and graphics. > mblogic has a modular design and allows you use things as modbus, but > you don't need to use modbus to build a scada-like web application. > You only will need to add authentication, as mblogic (in its hmiserver > module) doesn't have it implemented. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards. > > 2012/8/14 Sam <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm fairly new to web2py and python, but I'm trying to build a 'proof of > > concept' system to demonstrate how one of our products might work. > > > > The system consists of an embedded Linux board and an RS232 serial > digital > > compass. The system will read the orientation from the compass and light > a > > few LEDs as well as an audible tone to point a user in the right > direction. > > The device will also host a small web server running web2py so that > people > > can log on and view the real compass outputs - possibly an animated > > graphical display if i get that far... > > > > So really i just need some advice about the best architecture to get me > > started. > > > > Should I build everything into web2py - will it handle worker threads > for > > reading serial port etc, will it handle the LEDs/tone if no http users > are > > connected? > > Should I build a stand-alone python 'service' that handles the hardware > > interface - web2py can then read the results for the web elements? Would > > this use JSON, SOAP etc? > > > > Any help would be gratefully appreciated. > > Sam > > > > -- > > > > > > >
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