Re: [Emc-users] Little OT, but...

[W. M. <ma...@pl...>]

On 2014-03-03 14:35, Dave Cole wrote:
> This works well and is an excellent example and could be useful as is 
> for  a remote DRO display.
>
> One thing that differed from your instructions was that this line:
>
> "sudo apt-get install setuptools"   did not work as no package was found

Yes it depends on the distribution
and I've made a mistake.
It is called
    python-setuptools

mea culpa.
> However it appeared that the previous command:  "sudo apt-get install 
> python-pip" may have installed the setuptools
>
> I ran it on the local PC browser that already had LinuxCNC installed 
> running on Ubuntu 12.04, and it works fine and is very fast.  The PC was 
> plugged into my home network that has a wireless router attached.
> I pointed a Nexus 7 tablet running firefox at the LinuxCNC PC and the 
> DROs display nicely on it and the update is very fast.   Much faster 
> than I expected.
>
> I installed Apache prior to loading your example, thinking that was 
> required, but Cherrypy is a web server itself, which I did not realize, 
> and Apache is not doing anything.

Yes due to the lack of websocket support.
This would probably help:
  
     https://github.com/disconnect/apache-websocket

But it is much more difficult to setup.

My instructions was not clear. Sorry.

>
> Very nice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>

Thank you for the feedback and testing the tool. :)

Matsche

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