question: Running HTTP server when simulating protocols locally

[beniroquai]

Overview

Here you write We set up simulators for the protocol, but do not run any kind of web servers. I was simply curious if there is any hacky way to emulate the fastapi server locally for simulating the robot in a bigger framework. I haven't found any related issues, but perhaps someone made this work already. Thanks a lot!

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[koji]

@beniroquai
you mean like this, https://github.com/koji/api-for-simulator?

[beniroquai]

Hey @koji I think this is a great start - however, I would like to have access to the entire functionality of the simulation module (e.g. expose all endpoints 😉). Not sure if this is actually possible - in principle yes since it's a python module anyway.

[koji]

@beniroquai what you want to do is possible technically. it would need some efforts.

[beniroquai]

I want to be able to simulate the opentrons' HTTP interface without actually having one in front of me to test it ina lab automation framework. For this I want to use this framework: https://github.com/ad-sdl/wei/

[MetsvR]

Instead of simulating the api locally, you can run it on a raspberry pi. This works great for quick testing, but there's some issues with protocols not accepting different pipettes.

[beniroquai]

Iteresting! Thanks for sharing. Is there a bash script or docker container to install it? Could I use the buildroot directly?

[MetsvR]

Just flashing the latest OS to the SD card and booting the raspberry from that works.
It specifically needs to be a raspberry 3 B, i've tried newer models as well but they don't initialize.

[beniroquai]

Perfect. Thanks a lot! :) Message ID: ***@***.***>

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