Ubuntu server software to Ubuntu core

[Andrewdutcher]

In depth question:

 

I work for a company that makes kilns and ovens.  We have a software running on a ubuntu server somewhere out in the ether that lets customers view the temperature controllers in the control systems and make changes so they can get alerts if something goes off overnight, or start up an oven for a working day with their morning coffee from any internet access point through a website.

 

We're looking to move this software off the server and into a HMI/RMI hardwired into the PID controller of the oven itself.  Would a NUC running Ubuntu be able to run this Ubuntu server software without many changes?

 

This is a classic small business situation where the employees who designed the thing are no longer here, and we're left picking up the pieces and not knowing quite what we're doing.

 

Thanks for any help, tips, or just pointers to relevant info.

[Terryv]

Ubuntu core was meant for small ARM based SBC's like the raspberry Pi ( I didn't know prior to me just looking it up, there's an x86 version as well). A NUC will be more than powerful enough.

[frunzaverde]

On 1/3/2019 at 2:07 AM, Andrewdutcher said:

We're looking to move this software off the server and into a HMI/RMI hardwired into the PID controller of the oven itself.  Would a NUC running Ubuntu be able to run this Ubuntu server software without many changes?

 

If you are going to use a NUC, it should be powerful enough to run the same config that you have running on the cloud server right now (which I understand to be ubuntu-server). That should require the least amount of porting and software changes.

 

Switching to Ubuntu Core may require some changes to the software you have,  depending on how it was written, as not all packages available on ubuntu-server are available in core and not all packages behave the same.