Basic Functions

The app is made of two main pages, the AI DEV Lab and the AI DEV Manager. AI DEV Lab is where you can play with your python code, while AI DEV Manager is where you manage the AI DEV Lab Server and see your app’s logs. You can access these pages from the ctrlX Dashboard sidebar as shown in the picture. If you can not see the AI DEV Manager tab, it means that you don’t have the full access permission.

Start and Stop AI DEV Lab

To start the AI DEV Lab Server, go to the AI DEV Manager page and click on the green Start button under the Manage AI DEV Toolkit section as shown in the picture. Similarly you can stop the server by clicking the red Stop button.

Once the AI DEV Lab Server is started, you can open AI DEV Lab by clicking on the Open button or from the Sidebar.

Start and Stop your Python project

You can choose a python file to be executed when the app starts. To do so, place a python file named “app.py” inside a folder named “project”, as shown in the following picture.

You can also Start and Stop your file by using the relevant buttons in the Manage App section of the AI DEV Manager. If you would like to see the logs that your app generates, start the app using the yellow “Start with debug” button.

Disclosure

AI DEV Toolkit uses multiple ports that can increase power consumption and create potential security risks. It is the user’s responsability to stop the app’s functionalities when they are not using it.

User Management

The User Management is included in the ctrlX Automation Platform. You can manage your users under Settings > Users & Permissions > Users, as shown in the picture below.

Data persistence

The app’s data is stored inside the Active configuration folder.

Install more packages

AI DEV Toolkit comes with pre-installed python modules that are often used in Data Science and AI, e.g. numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. If you need to install other packages, you can do so by using pip and specifying one of the following target folders: SNAP_DATA, SNAP_COMMON. If you want your packages to be backup together with the standard ctrlX mechanism, install them in the following folder or subfolder: /var/snap/rexroth-solutions/common/solutions/DefaultSolution/configurations/appdata/jupyterlab.

For example, to install opencv you can run the following command:

pip3 install opencv-python -t $SNAP_DATA

In your python code, make sure to add $SNAP_DATA to the system paths before importing opencv:

import sys
import os
sys.path.append(os.environ['SNAP_DATA'])

import cv2