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OpenFlexure Microscope Software
Quickstart
A general user-guide on setting up your microscope can be found here on our website. This includes basic installation instructions suitable for most users.
Full developer documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs. This includes installing the server in a mode better suited for active development.
Installation
git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/openflexure/openflexure-microscope-server.gitpoetry installpoetry run build_static
Node installation
- Note, building the static interface will require a valid Node.js installation
- To build on a Raspberry Pi:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -sudo apt install nodejs
Distributing
mkdir -p disttar -c --exclude-vcs --exclude-from .tarignore -vzf dist/openflexure-microscope-server.tar.gz .
Build-system
As of 1.0.0b0, we're using Poetry to manage dependencies, build, and distribute the package. All package information and dependencies are found in pyproject.toml, in line with PEP 518. If you're developing this package, make use of poetry.lock to ensure you're using the latest locked dependency list.
Microscope plugins
The Microscope module, and Flask app, both support plugins for extending lower-level functionality not well suited to web API calls. This plugin system is still in fairly early development, and is not yet properly documented. The current documentation can be found here.
Running tests through the PTVSD remote debugger (port 3000)
- From the openflexure-microscope-software directory, run
python3 -m ptvsd --host 0.0.0.0 --port 3000 --wait tests/test_camera.py
Credits
Piexif
The microscope server includes a forked copy of hMatoba's Piexif, licensed under the MIT License.
Video streaming
Based on supporting code for the article video streaming with Flask and its follow-up Flask Video Streaming Revisited.