Yes cgi scripts take a few hours to learn and take only a small processor. Drubbing a dims and all is overkill and will not perform well on the BBB.
On Monday, July 6, 2015, Tom Harris <celephi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since you want simple just use a CGI script written in your language of > choice. Very easy technology to learn, Python has support libraries out of > the box if you want. You have a webpge with carious simple controls on it > like buttons etc, you click a special button that posts a request to a URL, > the webserver runs a script that generates the response, the webserver > serves it out, your browser displays it. Why bother with learning a > framework? Messing about with mechanics is far more fun! > > > Tom Harris <celephi...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > > On 4 July 2015 at 23:13, Jim Lux <jim...@earthlink.net <javascript:;>> > 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 -- time-nuts@febo.com <javascript:;> > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com <javascript:;> > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.