Need help to solve performance problems

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#1

Hey all,

I?m trying to use matplotlib on a Raspberry Pi to visualize data the Pi receives via serial port - and of course I?m new to Python and matplotlib. The visualization need not be online, rather in form of a PDF once no more data is received. Then however as quick as possible. Please refer to my SO question for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35629471/need-help-to-solve-performance-problems-of-matplotlib-on-a-raspberry-pi
Nevertheless here is a brief summary: During the better part of an hour my program does nothing but wait for input on the serial port, which is received once a second. During this waiting time it could already begin rendering the chart, and then just save it to file, once it?s done. I have not found out how to do this however. Whats more, I have read quite discouraging posts concerning the need to recalculate the axes and so forth. As an alternative to rendering the entire grid in the program, I guess it would be an improvement (speedwise) if I could just use an image of the grid and repeat it (as in tiling). But I have not quite found the means to do that either. Concerning the grid layout please refer to my other SO question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35551080/is-it-possible-to-generate-a-chart-with-this-very-specific-background.

Thanks a lot for reading?and perhaps answering :slight_smile:

Kind regards,
Oliver Holmes
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#2

Sounds like you are describing the need for blitting, which most of the
backends support in one way or another. The blitting pathways were designed
with animations in mind, but I don't see why it couldn't be hijacked for
your use as well. Note, you will have to do manual calls to
copy_from_bbox() and such, but it should be doable.

Ben Root

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On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Holmes, Oliver <Oliver.Holmes at smtonline.de> wrote:

Hey all,

I?m trying to use matplotlib on a Raspberry Pi to visualize data the Pi
receives via serial port - and of course I?m new to Python and matplotlib.
The visualization need not be online, rather in form of a PDF once no more
data is received. Then however as quick as possible. Please refer to my SO
question for more details:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35629471/need-help-to-solve-performance-problems-of-matplotlib-on-a-raspberry-pi
Nevertheless here is a brief summary: During the better part of an hour my
program does nothing but wait for input on the serial port, which is
received once a second. During this waiting time it could already begin
rendering the chart, and then just save it to file, once it?s done. I have
not found out how to do this however. Whats more, I have read quite
discouraging posts concerning the need to recalculate the axes and so
forth. As an alternative to rendering the entire grid in the program, I
guess it would be an improvement (speedwise) if I could just use an image
of the grid and repeat it (as in tiling). But I have not quite found the
means to do that either. Concerning the grid layout please refer to my
other SO question
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35551080/is-it-possible-to-generate-a-chart-with-this-very-specific-background
.

Thanks a lot for reading?and perhaps answering :slight_smile:

Kind regards,
Oliver Holmes

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#3

Ah, turns out the Raspberry Pi is more powerful than I thought. It?s just being held down by web2py. When I ran my script outside of web2py? in pure python so to speak, it was performing adequately. So now I?m using subprocess to call that script, and am quite happy. A wee bit more text here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35629471/need-help-to-solve-performance-problems-of-matplotlib-on-a-raspberry-pi

So thanks for your insight, Ben. But that just seemed a bit too low-level for me. I just had to try something different.

Cheers,

Oliver

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Am 01.03.2016 um 17:22 schrieb Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com<mailto:ben.v.root at gmail.com>>:

Sounds like you are describing the need for blitting, which most of the backends support in one way or another. The blitting pathways were designed with animations in mind, but I don't see why it couldn't be hijacked for your use as well. Note, you will have to do manual calls to copy_from_bbox() and such, but it should be doable.

Ben Root

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Holmes, Oliver <Oliver.Holmes at smtonline.de<mailto:Oliver.Holmes at smtonline.de>> wrote:
Hey all,

I?m trying to use matplotlib on a Raspberry Pi to visualize data the Pi receives via serial port - and of course I?m new to Python and matplotlib. The visualization need not be online, rather in form of a PDF once no more data is received. Then however as quick as possible. Please refer to my SO question for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35629471/need-help-to-solve-performance-problems-of-matplotlib-on-a-raspberry-pi
Nevertheless here is a brief summary: During the better part of an hour my program does nothing but wait for input on the serial port, which is received once a second. During this waiting time it could already begin rendering the chart, and then just save it to file, once it?s done. I have not found out how to do this however. Whats more, I have read quite discouraging posts concerning the need to recalculate the axes and so forth. As an alternative to rendering the entire grid in the program, I guess it would be an improvement (speedwise) if I could just use an image of the grid and repeat it (as in tiling). But I have not quite found the means to do that either. Concerning the grid layout please refer to my other SO question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35551080/is-it-possible-to-generate-a-chart-with-this-very-specific-background.

Thanks a lot for reading?and perhaps answering :slight_smile:

Kind regards,
Oliver Holmes

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