Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Chris Albertson
One good reason for doing as little as possible in a micro-controller is > that they are often used to collect raw data with as little latency as > possible. Doing web serving on a single slowish core in that case is not a > good idea. I have a bunch of Soekris doing data collection and if I start

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20120807180611.cf5c9800...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu rray writes: > >albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: >> So the web server is inside an Arduino? Yes can't run GNUplot there. Why >> not have the Arduino produce either Postscript or PDF? It is very easy to >> draw a grap

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: > So the web server is inside an Arduino? Yes can't run GNUplot there. Why > not have the Arduino produce either Postscript or PDF? It is very easy to > draw a graph in Postscript. That's a very good suggestion. I think the key idea is that the programmer is m

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread mike cook
Le 07/08/2012 17:56, Chris Albertson a écrit : On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Jim Lux wrote: On 8/6/12 10:43 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jim Lux wrote: what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a canned webpage (or stored loca

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 8/6/12 10:43 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jim Lux wrote: >> >> what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a >>> canned webpage (or stored locally on the user/client computer) that

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Bownes
If you are looking to graph long running data and provide rolled up summaries, the combination of MRTG and RRDtool is pretty hard to beat. Can work with pretty much anything on the back end. And it's the industry standard for network monitoring. http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg.en.html Or some

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread shalimr9
Regarding plotting data files through a web page, some time ago I wrote a small utility to do just that. We have a corona tester here at my workplace that generates binary files with the corona data. These are not easily plotted from a standard tool because of the proprietary format. Instea

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Jim Lux
On 8/6/12 10:43 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jim Lux wrote: what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a canned webpage (or stored locally on the user/client computer) that can ingest fairly raw data from a URL.. something, conceptuall

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-07 Thread Mike S
On 8/6/2012 12:57 PM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: The viewer can then right-click on the image and via the "view image" or similar menu open up the full-sized version for the fine detail. That worked on my browser and monitor, but apparently not on some other combinations. So, it's back to the

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi Pablo, On 08/06/2012 07:59 PM, Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga wrote: Hi there, El Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:43:50 -0700 Chris Albertson comentaba: What you are saying is that the data needs to be rendered to a graphic locally. I think the simplest way is to create vector based plots on the server

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga
Hi there, El Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:43:50 -0700 Chris Albertson comentaba: > What you are saying is that the data needs to be rendered to a graphic > locally. I think the simplest way is to create vector based plots > on the server (I've used GNU Plot inside a CGI script) but there is a > system t

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jim Lux wrote: > what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a > canned webpage (or stored locally on the user/client computer) that can > ingest fairly raw data from a URL.. > > something, conceptually, like this: > > > > *invocation of

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga
Hi there, On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:57:00 -0400 John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > > But that's extra work that I haven't gotten around to automating yet, > so I thought I'd try using the HTML size options: > It's easy to resize pictures automatically if you are a Linux user using imagemagick's conver

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Jim Lux
On 8/6/12 9:16 AM, Hal Murray wrote: jim...@earthlink.net said: what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a canned webpage (or stored locally on the user/client computer) that can ingest fairly raw data from a URL.. ... A low end microcontroller has no problem ser

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I think there are now a couple of threads going on about this topic, which I started by a clumsy attempt to use the "WIDTH" and "HEIGHT" attributes in HTML. :-) For what it's worth, I usually scale web graphics to no larger than 750 pixels horizontal or 550 pixels vertical. That goes back to

Re: [time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a > canned webpage (or stored locally on the user/client computer) that can > ingest fairly raw data from a URL.. ... > A low end microcontroller has no problem serving readonly pages from flash/

[time-nuts] web presentation of data

2012-08-06 Thread Jim Lux
what would be useful is to have some sort of "plotting engine" that is a canned webpage (or stored locally on the user/client computer) that can ingest fairly raw data from a URL.. something, conceptually, like this: *invocation of plotting engine* data value 1 data value 2 data value 3