create process to read time machine

[louking]

doesn't look like https://www.losant.com/blog/how-to-access-serial-devices-in-docker will work for windows host and docker container

• see https://forums.docker.com/t/how-to-expose-host-serial-port-to-container-correctly/81588/5
• also https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1018
  • may have to run app container in windows mode
  • https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1018#issuecomment-588295415
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/deploy-containers/hardware-devices-in-containers

maybe create separate exe to read from time machine and pipe somehow to the app container

• from https://stackoverflow.com/a/57766953/799921
  • https://websockets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
  • https://pyserial.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/
• start windows app as service: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32440, https://stackoverflow.com/a/46450007

If I'm using websockets to communicate with outside process, do I need to have two processes running in the container? I think I still need to lock the critical region but maybe can do it with threading.RLock()?

• https://websockets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/howto/nginx.html
• for locking: https://pypi.org/project/PyMySQLLock/ maybe? seems https://github.com/ionelmc/python-redis-lock would use redis
• https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/add-a-websocket-route-to-your-flask-2-x-application