README.client

darktalk is a simple client for the DARC with some limited but useful
functionality.

darcmagic has more flexibility and power than darctalk

darcplot can be used for telemetry data display

darcgui is an engineering GUI that is basic but has nearly full functionality

You will need python, numpy, omniORB and omniORBpy installed (which
includes omniidl).

To install, run
(cd lib && omniidl -bpython control.idl)
(cd src && python setup.py build && python setup.py install --install-lib=../lib && make receiver && cp receiver ../ )

Note, if the python setup.py build command doesn't work, don't worry
too much - you can still use most of darc without it (and it probably
means you are on a mac?).  You will just need to call darcmagic/darctalk read
with -local=0, and all should be well.  Note, on a mac, you will
always need to call darcmagic/darctalk read with -local=0 until Apple release a
full pthreads implementation.

Create a file called /etc/omniORB.cfg and put the following text in it:
giopMaxMsgSize = 209715200 
This sets the maximum corba message size to 200MB (default is 2MB!),
so means that you're unlikely to get unexplained crashes.

export ORBInitRef="NameService=corbaname::XXX" where XXX is the
location of the omniNames nameserver that DARC is using.

Make sure that darctalk can be found in your path (maybe you could
copy it to a bin/ directory), and that the lib
directory can be found in your PYTHONPATH variable (or copy the
contents of lib to where they can be found).

e.g.
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/lib
export PATH=$PATH:$PWD

On a mac, you may need to set:
export PYIPFORDARC=your IP address (e.g. 10.0.1.45)
And remember -local=0 when using "darcmagic read"