FabMo-Minder-Desktop

The FabMo Minder Desktop is a Cross-Platform desktop application for finding FabMo capable tool on your local network and connect to them.

Features

• Display the available machines on your network
• Give you the state, the job that is running if it's apply & the best Ip address to connect to your machine.
• quick access button to your machine using your default browser

#Installation instructions

Windows

Simply get the latest installer from the release page and install it. You're all set up !

Mac OSX

There is also a package file for MAC on the release page.

Linux

There is currently no installer for Linux, but you can easily run this app from sources as described below.

Running from sources

instructions

• First clone this repo into the desired folder : git clone https://github.com/jlucidar/FabMo-Tool-Minder-Desktop
• go to the folder that was created : cd FabMo-Tool-Minder-Desktop
• then run the npm i command to install the required dependencies
• finally run npm start to launch the Minder each time you need it.

##Limitation

• you can't start the Minder on system startup. you need to install the nw.js binaries in the Minder app root's folder to get it to work, and start the Minder by clicking on the nw executable.

Technical specification / Credits

• This application relies on nw.js wich is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications. The application is written in HTML/CSS/Javascript and Node.jS
• The design is made with the purecss framework
• The network detection tool relies on UDP broadcast, so you might check that your network allow this kind of request as it may be blocked by your router.