EDedudobay·Mar 6, 2024
Nice, will give it a try!
There is a similar tool that I've been using for years:
https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesIf you want to run commands on the raspbi from the web, you have lots of options. The question is if you want to send the commands literally to the terminal, or have some preprocessing step in between?
If you want to have a preprocessing step, then you need an API to take the commands, process them, run them, and then return the output. If you want to stream the output, you should look into something like websockets. There are also libraries built specifically for streaming logs to the browser, e.g. [0]
But might I suggest a simpler approach? How about a JS terminal emulator that is SSHed into the raspberry pi? I've used a library called "wetty" [1] successfully in the past. It's a node server + JS terminal emulator (based on hterm, used in chromebooks). The node server SSH's into the target box on behalf of the client, and then forwards
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the tty over the link `client <-> server <-> ssh <-> target`. All you need to do is install the node server on the pi and have it SSH into localhost.
[0] https://github.com/mthenw/frontail
[1] https://github.com/krishnasrinivas/wetty
Slightly different from https://github.com/mthenw/frontail but similar type of thinking. Will be interesting to see how you can evolve security and management.
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