Instrumentino Notes
Contents
Draft
Just a draft working on it as of Oct 2016, check history to see if updated.
see also: Controlino Notes
What is Instrumentino
Links to what the authors think:
My Take
Instrumentino is an instrument control system designed to interface with various smart or semi smart systems. The actual sensors and actuators can be as simple as potentiometers, lm35, solar cells, relays..... . As a sort of glue there is some smart component ( beyond Instrumentino ) which, in the base case, is an Arduino running Controlino. Instrumentino can configure Controlino on the fly to interact with a large number of sensors/actuators.
Why
Install
Misnomer I do not want to really install it I want to get it running in my Spyder environment. Russ's Computer Environment
This works
Download the file from github, the zip file. Unzip. Ignore a bunch of the stuff and take the
\instrumentino
from ( ........\instrumentino-master\instrumentino )
and copy it to the place where your spyder projects live ( making a new project instrumentino )
Find the file:
......\SpyderP\instrumentino\__init__.py
and modify the top to:
from __future__ import division
import sys
sys.path.append( ".." )
#...... rest of file
This should make it run.
To do much more it seems you need an arduino.
Suggestions Remarks
Stuff from Russ, more as it occurs to me.
- Merge git hub for Instrumentino and Controlino. What is value of separate repositories, I do not see it.
- Is there doc for Controlino? I added just a bit at: Controlino Notes
- I like to keep my commands and responses short. Keeps speed up without high baud rates. Long wires need low baud rates. Really dislike xml idea. Would consider binary mode for time critical systems.
- Caps insensitivity is nice, but at high speeds is slower.
- Add a command to identify the software on the Arduino I use v for version, could be version, id..... My system responds something like "GreenHouse Sept04 2016" this way I can verify what I have connected to and that baud... is working.
- Looks like development is moving towards a new GUI. Consider making the GUI a snap in snap out replaceable componentl. Why Kivy, I can guess, but the fight to install might cool my jets.
- Do not make too monolithic, instead a family of applications not too tightly coupled.
Old Notes Ignore Until Properly Organized
On windows not going well
C:\Users\Russ>pip install instrumentino Collecting instrumentino Using cached instrumentino-1.0.tar.gz Collecting wxPython (from instrumentino) Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wxPython (from instrumentino) (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for wxPython (from instrumentino) C:\Users\Russ>pip install wxPython Collecting wxPython Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wxPython (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for wxPython
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C:\Users\Russ>pip install wxPython Collecting wxPython Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wxPython (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for wxPython C:\Users\Russ>pip install wxpython Collecting wxpython Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement wxpython (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for wxpython
Well, not so bad. Useful to know that my Spyder already had wxpython, came with it or I installed, who knows. Also useful to know wxpython is called wx. This helps a lot.
Clean Install on Mint
Installed spyder
went to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/instrumentino link to git hub gave 404 search found https://github.com/yoelk/instrumentino
using D:\_Source\Python\instremento\Using Instrumentino_v03.odt package manger wxpython
Documentation
- D:\_Source\Python\instremento\Using Instrumentino_v03 (1).odt on my system, not sure where I found it. Looks like from github below.
- Github Master for Instrumentino what other than code is there: Wiki, not yet. But Russ can edit it. In https://github.com/yoelk/instrumentino/tree/master/documents there are some good documents.
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