web2board

Native program that connects a website and a Arduino compatible board. It compiles Arduino sketches and uploads them onto a board.

This project has been developed in Python language and it is distributed under GPL v3 license.

Special Thanks

• Arduino founders & staff (http://www.arduino.cc/) for creating all the Arduino Core that is widely used nowadays.
• Akkana Peck akkana@shallowsky.com for the Makefile-arduino v0.8 in which our Makefile is based.
• Platformio team http://platformio.org/ for its great cross-platform build system.

Installing

GNU/Linux Ubuntu

Download and install "web2board.deb"

If user has no access to serial port, execute:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

Logout from your session to apply the changes

logout

Windows

[TODO]

Development

web2board has been developed in Ubuntu Gnome. If you are a developer and you want to modify the code, contribute, build packages, etc. you may follow this steps:

1. Set up the environment

Tools

Sublime Text 3 IDE

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

Arduino IDE

sudo apt-get install arduino arduino-core

Git version control

sudo apt-get install git gitk

Dependencies

Following dependencies are included in deb package, but if you want to install it manually, they are:

Python

# in web2board path
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

AVRDUDE

sudo apt-get install avrdude

In order to generate Debian and Windows packages, some extra dependencies are needed

Packaging

# in web2board path
# set up res folder (only once)
python src/Scripts/ConstructRes.py
# start packaging
python src/Scripts/package.py

# installer will be created in installer folder

it is not possible to generate an installer for other platform other that the host due to a limitation in pyinstaller, see: http://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html?highlight=virtualbox#supporting-multiple-platforms

2. Download source code

All source code is available on GitHub. You can download main web2board project by doing:

web2board

git clone git@github.com:bq/web2board.git

3. Execute source code

In the project directory, execute the command:

# in web2board path
# set up res folder (only once)
python src/Scripts/ConstructRes.py
# start web2board
python src/web2board.py

GNU/Linux Fedora

[TODO]