[chimerax-users] Starting ChimeraX programmatically with remotecontrol

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Mungo,
	Seems like chimerax --cmd “remote rest start” does it.  You could provide a port number as an argument to the command if you don’t want to read an assigned one off standard input.

—Eric

	Eric Pettersen
	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab



> On Dec 10, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Mungo Carstairs (Staff) <g.m.carstairs at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Jalview has the ability to launch Chimera with "--start RESTServer", capture the port number from the response, and drive Chimera with REST commands.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out whether this mechanism is also provided with ChimeraX. I've read 
> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2017-July/000113.html <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2017-July/000113.html>
> and looked at 
> http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/startup.html <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/startup.html>
> and
> http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/options.html#start <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/options.html#start>
> but so far I can't see that "RESTServer" is a startable tool.
> 
> Is this, or is it planned to be, possible somehow?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mungo
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