Hi Mungo! There is a “Remote Control” tool (menu under Tools… General) and “remotecontrol” command, both currently undocumented, sorry. Needed a programmer to write up this information in more detail. Starting the tool from the Tools menu appears to do nothing other than report in the Log that an xmlrpc server is running, but entering command “usage remotecontrol” will show a bit more information in the Log that might be enough to get you started using the command instead. Currently when I do that I see: remotecontrol rest port — Report REST server port remotecontrol rest start [port an integer] [ssl true or false] — Start REST server remotecontrol rest stop [quiet true or false] — Stop REST server remotecontrol xmlrpc enable [address a text string] [port an integer][timeout a number] — Allow other processes to send XMLRPC commands to ChimeraX enable: true or false …so there are indeed options for REST server communication. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Dec 10, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Mungo Carstairs (Staff) <g.m.carstairs@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 and looked at http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/startup.html and 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