Julia2020TouchUI

Touch UI for Julia 2020

Development Requiements:

A simple getting started guide

1. PyQt4
2. Qt Designer 4.8.7 ( requred to edit .ui file)
3. Websocket client ( pip install websocket-client )
4. other dependencies that "Main.py" needs (see it's headers)

The MainGUI.py file is generated from the mainGUI_advanced.ui file using pyuic4 .\mainGUI_advanced_abl.ui -o .\mainGUI_advanced_abl.py

Running/Executing:

Octoprint needs to be running in prder for the Touch UI to work, since it uses octoprint's api functionality

1. point the "ip" and "apiKey" to where Octoprint is living. Point it to the local host in case it is running on the same system
2. in case of running it on anything other than a raspberry pi, disable the raspberry pi option

To Install:

1. Install Octoprint: ..* git clone into root directory of Raspberry Pi https://github.com/FracktalWorks/Julia2018Octoprint.git ..* Change into the OctoPrint folder: cd Julia2018Octoprint ..* Create a user-owned virtual environment therein: virtualenv venv ..* Install OctoPrint into that virtual environment: ./venv/bin/python setup.py install ..* Follow other instructions for automatic startup

2. Install TouchUI into Octoprint: ..*