pyobs-gui

This is a pyobs GUI for operating the whole system: one page per connected module (camera, telescope, roof, focuser, ...), plus Shell/Events/Status tool pages.

Install pyobs-gui

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/pyobs/pyobs-gui.git
cd pyobs-gui

Install it with uv:

uv sync

Running

Two ways to start it:

• uv run pyobs-gui — standalone, interactive login. No YAML config needed; it prompts for XMPP credentials (with an optional "store password") and connects directly.
• uv run pyobs <config.yaml> — the standard pyobs CLI, driven by a config file whose top-level class is pyobs_gui.GUI (see docs/source/index.rst for a full example, including how to wire in a custom widget for a module).

Standalone binary (experimental)

pysidedeploy.spec builds a standalone Linux binary with Nuitka (about 760 MB, 20 minutes on 16 cores, needs gcc and ccache or clang). Build it from a clean, non-editable install, otherwise Nuitka cannot map the pyobs-gui distribution to its package and aborts:

uv sync --no-dev
uv pip install --reinstall --no-deps .
uv pip install pip "Nuitka==4.0" patchelf
PATH="$PWD/.venv/bin:$PATH" pyside6-deploy -c pysidedeploy.spec --force -f

The result is dist/pyobs-gui.dist/pyobs_gui.bin. Known issue: astropy's cds/ogip/vounit unit parsers do not work in the compiled binary (see pyobs_gui/_nuitka_astropy_patch.py), so those formats log a UnitsWarning.