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Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by smcnally »

The initial demo walkthrough prompts are done well. The responsiveness is impressive especially considering FF on iOS — all but object moves and resizes and widening the left rail works well.

The docs for adding providers and sources, e.g., are involved at a glance, but very cool NASA’s made this available.

https://github.com/nasa/openmct/blob/master/API.md#integrati...

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by Rebelgecko »

villasv wrote: post #14

Would be nice to have a comparison with existing alternatives, specially Grafana and Kibana. The first win is a cooler sounding name and backer credentials.

Recollections based upon when a project I worked on was thinking of moving to a web based tool:

Grafana does not work well when you are graphing things with high refresh rates, as well as data where different measurements don't necessarily line up in time.

OpenMCT handles the latter situation better while having much more configurability, but still struggles with data that is frequently updated

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by reacharavindh »

I’m looking for something like this at the moment for a solution about to be built from scratch. Data from industrial devices needs to be processed by a backend API, and then visualised for command and control. Does anyone know open source - free/paid but self-bistable solutions I should look at?

InfluxDB + Grafana looks like a very developer friendly solution, but not for the polished “customer view dashboard” as it has all sorts of controls I don’t want the customer to care about...

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by ardaorhan »

villasv wrote: post #14

Would be nice to have a comparison with existing alternatives, specially Grafana and Kibana. The first win is a cooler sounding name and backer credentials.

Its UI seems cluttered to me. Texts on menu items on the right clipped which makes it hard to read. Also every graph page has button screen at the end of the viewport which also hard to locate at first. Color scheme is good though.

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by beachy »

reacharavindh wrote: post #33

I’m looking for something like this at the moment for a solution about to be built from scratch. Data from industrial devices needs to be processed by a backend API, and then visualised for command and control. Does anyone know open source - free/paid but self-bistable solutions I should look at? InfluxDB + Grafana looks like a very developer friendly solution, but not for the polished “customer view dashboard” as it…

I would not dismiss grafana + influxdb out of hand. You can embed grafana charts inside iframes, hiding the controls, driving it instead with parameters, it's a powerful way to add graphs to a larger system.

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by zelphirkalt »

As far as I can see, the lock file for dependencies is not in the repository? That seems to be a grave mistake for mission critical software. You can expect it to break at inconvenient moments. The installation instructions are merely `npm install`, so it is not reproducible work. I would not put too much weight in the label "nasa" on this one. Perhaps it is a low priority project for them, and it would not matter much, if it fails to build.

EDIT: The issues seem to confirm this. For example the demo app did not work out of the box. See /issues/3656

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by rakoo »

reacharavindh wrote: post #33

I’m looking for something like this at the moment for a solution about to be built from scratch. Data from industrial devices needs to be processed by a backend API, and then visualised for command and control. Does anyone know open source - free/paid but self-bistable solutions I should look at? InfluxDB + Grafana looks like a very developer friendly solution, but not for the polished “customer view dashboard” as it…

Smashing (https://smashing.github.io/), fork of dashing, has a very nice and simple ui. It's an all in one package, meaning that it also manages fetching the data if you want, or you can POST to it whenever there's a new value. In the UI all you can do is reorganize your widgets however you want

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by detaro »

bergie wrote: post #38

At the c-base hackerspace in Berlin we integrated OpenMCT with our MQTT/MsgFlo setup to visualize all kinds of stats. Here's a post on how to do it: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/nasa-openmct-iot-dashboard/

Given your work I assume you've also looked at alternatives over the years. Can you say something about OpenMCT in comparison to others?

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Post by teleforce »

Check this Hayabusa2 Japan asteroid explorer [1].

You can track the telemetry data in real-time using the cool looking Haya2NOW dashboard [2].

The Hayabusa2's Haya2NOW website was discussed in HN before [3].

[1]https://medium.com/@JackKelleher/meet-hayabusa-2-4f808231d5e...

[2]http://haya2now.jp/en.html

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046274

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