PIGEON, AS IS, CURRENTLY DOES NOT WORK
The user interface works, but it cannot actually start and stop GRIP. Shell scripts need to be added to run on reboot.
Web interface for FRC's GRIP, made with FRC teams and single board computers in mind.
- Can be used offline
- Easy to upload, test, run, and add to startup different GRIP scripts
- Blazing fast
- Uses (for the most part) an MVC structure making it easier to maintain and read - no ugly files with PHP and HTML combined!
- All around awesomeness!
NOTE: Please use a UPS. Without one your single board computer may shut down with the incorrect status or become corrupted. Tips on using a UPS can be found on the Wiki.
With Pigeon, you can upload scripts and rapidly test them out - Pigeon provides controls for starting, stopping, and deleting uploaded scripts. You can also add a GRIP script to startup, so that it will run without any outside intervention when your robot starts.
The only other major option, in my mind, is NodeJS. And while that's hip and cool, I've found it
- Time consuming and hard to install on embeded ARM platforms
- Uses more resorces than Apache + PHP
Plus, PHP makes it ridiculously easy to execute system commands.
I have no idea. I don't use Windows regularly. Here are some potential problems if you're looking to make with work with Windows:
- The install script won't work, obviously
- Path structure - Pigeon reads/writes to files in a couple places, and a *nix path is much different than a Windows one
- Reboot scripts - Pigeon (will) run 2 scripts on startup, which won't work under Windows
Probably not. The source for GRIP clocks in at over 100 MBs, mostly because they included OpenCV with it. It might work if someone made a 'Lite' version that consists of just a frontend that communicates with the server. Additionally, Java is being phased out (or already has been dropped) by Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
That doesn't sound like a question 😄. No, it's not. By crafting a special filename and giving it to /helper.php, an attacker could execute anything they wanted. I haven't focused on security, because most FRC teams are not a target. But if someone wants to make this more secure, they're more than welcome.
Max Isom. I'm on team #3299, but currently I'm the only one who's contributed to the code. Pigeon is licensed under the MIT License, meaning that you can do anything you want with this as long as you provide attribution to the creator.
Give back to the community. Fork this, add in a feature you've always wanted, and open a pull request. That's how open source projects get better. If that's not enough for you, here's my Bitcoin address: 1574xswbQG1SxxMvtMu1cqsSA3UWy7WzS7.