README

About

This is a rewrite of JMc's py2 version of the original metserver.c program.

Mainly, motivated by updating to py3 but modified to include logger, lots of try catch clauses and raised exceptions (probably an unnecessary amount of them), and the probable adoption of a networked serial-to-ethernet convertor.

Now also requires an external configuration file (config.py).

All the original code is under the metserver-orginal directory.

Project

Files:

metserver.py, config.py, requirements.txt, metserver.service, README.md...

Set-up

Some preliminaries:

$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install python3-venv

Also, just in case:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip 

Set-up the virtual environment

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$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Set-up the system service

$ sudo cp metserver.service /etc/systemd/system/
$ sudo systemctl enable metserver.service
$ sudo systemctl start metserver.service

Check: sudo systemctl status metserver.service

And check the logs:

sudo journalctl -u metserver.service -f -n