pyplot-over-ip

X11 Forwarding can be tricky to setup if your want to display matplotlib figures rendered on a remote machine on your local display. Instead this package simply sends matplotlib.figure.Figure as pickled python objects over http. If the remote machine is one the same network no additional setup is required. For remote machines on other networks bidirectional ssh port forwarding is recommended. The connection is secured using http basic auth.

Installation

The package must be installed on both your local and remote machine.

pip install git+https://github.com/lorenz-h/pyplot-over-ip.git

Usage

On the remote machine you use for rendering replace plt.show() or plt.figsave() with pltip.show():

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pyplot_over_ip as pltip

# run this once when starting your script.
pltip.setup("ip_of_your_display_machine", "your_secure_password")

plt.plot([0.5, 1.0, 3.0], [12.0, 5.0, 8.0])
pltip.show()

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([0.3, 1.1, 6.0], [3.0, 9.0, 4.0])
pltip.show(fig)

To display figures on your local machine run the receiver:

pyplot-over-ip --password your_secure_password