TART: Radio-telescope high-level HTTP interface

This module is used to communicate with the TART radio telescope. It listens on a port on localhost, and allows a web-based interface to communicate with the TART hardware.

For more information see the TART github repository

Authors

• Tim Molteno (tim@elec.ac.nz)
• Max Scheel (max@max.ac.nz)
• Tim Miller (milletf1@gmail.com)

Running The API Server

The API server is a flask app written in Python. This is run using the 'flask' command line tool on the telescope host (Raspberry Pi) that is installed as a dependency of this package. A shell script 'run_api.sh' should be created with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
export LOGIN_PW=password
export FLASK_APP=tart_web_api.main
flask run

where 'password' is a secure password that can be used to log into the telescope web-application to configure your telescope.

Docker

We are now using to deployment using docker. There is a Dockerfile for this in the TART/software/docker/tart_web_api directory.

Twisted

twistd -n web --port 8080 --wsgi tart_web_api.app

Development work

If you are developing this package, this should be installed using

python3 setyp.py develop

in which case changes to the source-code will be immediately available to projects using it.

NEWS

• Version 0.1.8 Python3 compatability