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OpenFlexure Microscope Software
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# Installation
# Quickstart

A general user-guide on setting up your microscope can be found [here on our website](https://www.openflexure.org/projects/microscope/).
A general user-guide on setting up your microscope can be found [**here on our website**](https://www.openflexure.org/projects/microscope/).

## Easy
## Installation
- Run `curl -LSs get.openflexure.org/microscope |sudo bash`
- Follow on-screen prompts

## Manual
### User
- (Recommended) create a virtual environment
  - `pip3 install virtualenv`
  - `mkdir ~/.openflexure`
  - `python3 -m virtualenv ~/.openflexure/envmicroscope`
  - Activate with `source /.openflexure/envmicroscope/bin/activate`
- Install non-python dependencies with `sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev libjasper-dev libjpeg-dev`
- **Users:** Install module by running `pip install openflexure-microscope`
- **Developers:** Install [Poetry](https://github.com/sdispater/poetry), clone this repo, and `poetry install` from inside the repo.

# Usage
## Running the web API in Gunicorn (port 5000)
- Ensure Gunicorn is installed to the current environment (`pip install gunicorn`)
- Run `gunicorn --threads 5 --workers 1 --graceful-timeout 3 --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 openflexure_microscope.api.app:app`

# REST(ish) API
The Flask app serves a (reasonably) RESTful web API. For most user-facing functionality, this is the preferred interface. 
API documentation, with example requests, is available [here](https://openflexure-microscope-software.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html).


# Developer notes

## Documentation