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FarmBot OS Source Glossary
This file contains a basic glossary of commonly used terms
FarmBot Specific Terms
- Asset - REST resource stored in Farmbot's database stored on the SD card
- Arduino Firmware - The code that runs on the Arduino.
- CelleryScript - FarmBot OS's scripting language
- FarmbBot API/Web App - The REST server FarmBot communicates with
General Terms
- Elixir - Programming language FarmBot is developed in
- Erlang - Programming language and VM that Elixir compiles down too
- UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. hardware based transport mechanism
- SSH - Secure Shell.
- MQTT/AMQP - network protocols for pub/sub data transport
- HTTP - network protocol for accessing REST resource
Nerves Specific Terms
- Nerves - Framework that allows cross compilation of Elixir code
- NervesHub - Cloud based firmware management
- Firmware - Usually refers to the code that gets deployed onto the Raspberry Pi
OTP Terms
- Beam - Virtual machine that runs compiled Erlang bytecode
- OTP - Open Telecom Platform. Erlang's runtime libraries
- Supervisor - OTP
Process
responsible for supervisingWorkers
- Worker - OTP
Process
responsible for doingwork
. UsuallySupervised
- Process - OTP concept responsible for sending/receiving messages. everything is a process in erlang
- Application - OTP concept responsible for containing many
Supervisor
s andWorker
s - Distribution - OTP concept of networking multiple Beam instances together
- ETS - Erlang Term Storage. OTP application for storing data in memory
- DETS - Disk Erlang Term Storage. OTP application for storing data on disk