Re: Porting Pyro to micropython

Well, isn't Pyro a full Python solution? Therefore it should run on other
platforms that support Python as well.
For instance, it worked out of the box on my Raspberry Pi, an ARM
processor...


Richard


2014-02-17 12:59 GMT+01:00 Frédéric <[email protected]>:

> Hi there,
>
> Some years ago (back to 2003), I started a software based on Pyro to
> control a big instrument, in a french research institute (ILL¹).
>
> This software is split in 3 parts: a Pyro server is running on an embedded
> system (VME card running linux), where we wrote some low-level task to
> drive the instrument. On a desktop computer, we wrote another Pyro server,
> which is itself a client of the embedded Pyro server; this second server
> implements high level tasks, and is itself used by clients which send
> commands, and receive results. These clients are mainly console oriented,
> based on ipython.
>
> This software is still running fine for all these years, almost 24/7/365:
> Pyro was a really good choice :o)
>
> I recently discovered a great project: micropython². It is a python
> interpreter for micro-controller (stm32f4xx). This project is amazing! I
> ordered 4 boards (not yet delivered, as Damien, the developer, is still
> working on it), and I will use them to replace my Arduino boards ;o)
>
> So, why not porting Pyro to micropython? This would be great to be able to
> write low-level code on the pyboard, which has limited ressources, and is
> more I/O oriented, and then have a higher-level code running on a
> desktop-like computer. Mostly what we did to drive our intruments ;o)
>
> The question is: can Pyro run on micropython? I don't think it is possible
> to port the complete server code, but having some basic Pyro core running
> should be great, even if we don't maintain compatibility with official
> Pyro project ; some fork would be OK too.
>
> What do you think? I already have a non-official board running micropython
> (STM32F4-Discovery), so I can start making some tests. Where should I
> start? Which part of the code should I dig into?
>
> Thanks for you help,
>
> ¹ http://www.ill.eu
> ² http://www.micropython.org
>
> PS: as micropython implements python3 language, I guess it is better to
> use Pyro4.
>
> --
>     Frédéric
>
>
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