node-serial-gui

Uses Node.js and node-webkit to build a gui for graphing serial data. This package includes a simple Energia sketch to send random data from a LaunchPad to the GUI over serial.

Uses

• Node.js
• node-serialport
• node-webkit
• flot
• bootstrap

Instructions

To make a working stand-alone application from the code in this repository, you will need to install a framework and some tools.

• Install the Node.js framework. Follow the instructions included with the installer for your platform.

• Install the following: bower, nw-gyp, grunt and grunt-cli with npm install -g <package_name>. For instance, to install bower go to your favorite terminal and type npm install -g bower.

  Note that the -g flag installs those packages globally and may require sudo and an administrator package to work properly on your platform.

• Install npm components
  npm install

• Install bower components
  bower install

• Rebuild node-serialport for node-webkit

   cd node_modules/serialport    
   nw-gyp rebuild --target=your_nodewebkit_version_number.
   	
  

  Replace your_nodewebkit_version_number with the proper number - for instance, 0.9.2.

• Run grunt to build the executable

   grunt
  

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