Write textfile which can be saved to USB-Stick easily

URCap Development
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Hi,

I’m relatively new to URCap but use a UR10 CB3.3 for a longer time now.

My team and I want to develop a solution with which we can create a “logfile” with a position and DI’s and DO’s per line. Surprised by not finding such functionality in the core we thought of developing a URCap.
I found the XML-RPC Math URCap and thought that could help to append lines to a textfile like so:

File(message):
with open(filePath, 'a+') as file:
	file.write(message, "\n")

My Problem now is that I don’t know how to save this file to a USB-stick. My preferred solution would be an appearing save file dialog when I press an own HTML Button or something like this.

Maybe someone has done this before and/or can me help.
Please, any suggestions/solutions are highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!
Frederik

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Hi Fratz,

I’m sure some of our more Java savvy friends can tell you how to make a more flexible solution using JFileChooser, but for a very simple python-centric approach you could just have a “Save to USB” button in your plugin GUI, that uses xmlrpc to call a python function that copies the log file into the USB which is auto mounted at /programs/usbdisk

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Hi ajp,

I am using a simple python-centric approach to copy a log file to the USB disk. The problem I am having is that even when a USB disk is not plugged in, I can still copy files to the /programs/usbdisk location. Is there a way to check if a USB disk is actually plugged in before copying files?

Thanks,
Matt

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Hi Matt,

The /programs/usbdisk location is just a symbolic link to the disk, it’s actually mounted in the /media directory.

I don’t have a real robot infront of me now, but I think it mounts the disk in that directory with an auto generated name starting with “ur”. So you could check if the /media directory contains something with a name like that, and if so, proceed with your write operation:

import os
disks = os.listdir('/media')
    for d in disks:
        if 'ur' in d:
            #proceed to write file

Based on the example here: