[2017-02-22]

Attendees:

• Christian Fobel
• Ryan Fobel
• Michal Kurdziel
• Michael Connoly
• Aeron Tynes Hammack
• Travis

WebRTC video

• Michal read through documentation on WebRTC, etc.
• will be trying to get a minimal example working with Raspberry pi camera over the next couple of weeks
• Michael Connoly found a nice example: Matrix Bot Raspberry Pi WebRTC video streaming & control hack.

Toronto update

• All MicroDrop dependencies are now conda packages
• PlatformIO firmware building
  • tools not yet tested on Linux/ARM but supporting that platform is the goal
• new MicroDrop plugins specify conda package dependencies
  • simplifies installation, rollback, etc.
• DropBot v3.0 update
  • new hardware is tested/working
  • currently pursuing EMC compliance
  • hardware should be ready to ship by end of March/April

Next meeting

March 8th at 11am EST/8am PT

[2017-01-26]

Attendees:

• Christian Fobel
• Ryan Fobel
• Michal Kurdziel
• Michael Connoly

Christian:

• lots of work on packaging
• making MicroDrop plugins conda packages (conda package manager handles dependencies, provides ability to rollback)
• new packages are being made w/ Linux support (still lots of old packages that will need work to support Linux)
• looking at using MQTT as message broker/hub (replacing ZeroMQ hub)
• MQTT broker handles establishing connections, keep alive
• bindings available for lots of languages (e.g., Python, Javascript) and plenty of examples online
• facilitates bridging (e.g., on broker on Raspberry pi bridged to another broker on PC or in cloud)

Michal:

• received Raspberry Pi
• has been busy with upcoming release
• will have more of a chance to work on things after Feb 21

Michael:

• been traveling/sick so not much of a chance to play with Raspberry Pi/camera
• still working on getting DropBot systems up and running
• will co-ordinate with Ryan/Christian over email

Next meeting

• setup something on the week of Feb 23rd
• will post invite to dropbot-dev list

[2017-01-05]

Attendees:

• Michael Connolly
• Michal Kurdziel
• Ryan Fobel
• Christian Fobel

Topics:

• WebRTC video (see #205)
  • Michael discussed some info on Raspberry Pi Video Stream WebRTC (e.g., Janus gateway, etc.)
  • Michal read up on DropBot and MicroDrop documentation and is waiting for Raspberry Pi hardware to arrive to start working on WebRTC video
• Ryan updated Development roadmap
  • Added JupyterLab style labels for issues to assign categories to roadmap tasks
  • Specific categories that may be of interest are Web UI and Linux support
• Christian mentioned that JupyterLab has added some documentation for its plugins and extensions
  • It would be great to get a hello world JupyterLab extension packaged up as a Conda package
  • See also JupyterLab extension-builder
• Christian published repository for bundling webui.js javascript library (dependency of webui-plugin)
  • Christian will work on putting together remaining documentation to build/run webui-plugin