CLI control of ayab / API
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This is such an amazingly cool project, loving it!
For an art-science collaboration project, we are currently researching ways to interface a knitting machine with data streams (think sensor data, output from data analysis pipelines...).
To do so, I am planning to write a small JSON API to interface our data streams with ayab.
To do so, I would need a way to get higher-level/ CLI control over ayab (or API control of the GUI?).
I do not want to re-invent the wheel here and before I hack away at something that has been done before:
- has there been a successor to the deprecated CLI interface to ayab?
- if no, any pointers on where in this repo to start hacking away at this? I'm a data scientist, so machine-interfacing code is a bit out of my comfort zone, so it would be good to know where the higher-level routines are.
Hi,
sorry for letting you wait...here are some answers for you:
has there been a successor to the deprecated CLI interface to ayab?
No, there hasn't been a CLI successor
if no, any pointers on where in this repo to start hacking away at this? I'm a data scientist, so machine-interfacing code is a bit out of my comfort zone, so it would be good to know where the higher-level routines are.
Have a look here: https://github.com/AllYarnsAreBeautiful/ayab-manual/blob/1.0.0-dev/docs/API.md
That's the API documentation of the v6 protocol, which is used for the upcoming version 1.0 of the AYAB software.
Here's the place where it is used in the main software, so you could try and figure out how to adapt it to your needs.
Hope this helps!