ARGoS3-Webviz

A Web interface plugin for ARGoS 3.

All builds	Ubuntu 16.04	Ubuntu 18.04	Mac OSX

Features

• All communication over Websockets
• SSL support (protocol wss://)
• Only single port needed(Easier for NAT/forwarding/docker)
• filterable channels (broadcasts, events, logs)
• easily extendable for custom robots/entities.
• Independent Web client files.
• Simple client protocol, can easily be implemented in any technology
• Using UWebSockets, which is blazing fast(Benchmarks).
• The event-loop is native epoll on Linux, native kqueue on macOS

See more examples at https://github.com/NESTLab/argos3-webviz-examples

Installing

Dependencies

Homebrew

$ brew install cmake git zlib openssl

Debian

$ sudo apt install cmake git zlib1g-dev libssl-dev

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install cmake git zlib-devel openssl-devel

You can Download pre-compiled binaries from Releases

or

Installing from source

Requirements

• A UNIX system (Linux or Mac OSX; Microsoft Windows is not supported)
• ARGoS 3
• g++ >= 7 (on Linux)
• clang >= 3.1 (on MacOSX)
• cmake >= 3.5.1
• zlib >= 1.x
• git (for autoinstalling dependencies using Cmake ExternalProject)

Optional dependency

• OpenSSL >= 1.1 (for websockets over SSL)

Please install all dependencies before continuing

Downloading the source-code

$ git clone https://github.com/NESTLab/argos3-webviz

Compiling

The compilation is configured through CMake.

$ cd argos3-webviz
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../src
$ make
$ sudo make install

You can use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug instead of Release with the cmake command above to enable debugging.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate. Check full contributing info

License

MIT

Licenses of libraries used are in their respective directories.

Limitations

OpenGL Loop functions are currently neglected in this plugin, as they are QT-OpenGL specific.