receive_plot.sh empty with non-standard file structure (no front/rear)

[rglastra]

Hi,

As alluded to in my earlier issue (#52), my drive structure doesn't include a front/rear because all my enclosures are front-facing. As such, I removed this from my drive_structures file.
I also go by rows rather than column (but I expected there to be minor issues with that), so that required some minor work.

However it appears drive_manager.py is hardcoded to look for the front/rear mountpoint pattern, failing to create a working receive_plot.sh upon first run of python3 drive_manager.py. Which in turn leads to unsuccessful plot transfers (I was getting "Remote NC kill!").
It would be fantastic if it could deduce the pattern from the drive_structures file instead.

To manually fix this for now I had to:

• Open drive_manager.py, for get_path_info_by_mountpoint change the second entry from:

    elif info == 'column':
        return (mountpoint.split("/")[5])

To:

    elif info == 'row':
        return (mountpoint.split("/")[4])

• Remove receive_plot.sh, transfer_is_active (on the harvester) and transfer_job_running (on the plotter side)
• Re-run python3 drive_manager.py on the harvester
• Re-run python3 plot_manager.py (or wait for the cronjob to kick in).

[rjsears]

That is a great idea! I am not sure using the drive_structure file is the best way as I was using that as example structures (for example we could add your structure as one of the possible structures) but there should be a way to alter the elif info == 'column`: part to work with the scripts.

I am going to work on that when I have some time to see if I can make it easier. In the meantime I added notes to the script itself which may better help others.