h-client provides a desktop application for submitting device data for h-node.org, automatically finding data known to the operating system and checking if the device is already known on h-node. Laptops are currently unsupported, most other devices can be reported more easily using the client than with the Web interface.

You can download the source by typing the following command:

svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/h-client/trunk/h-client

Parabola package here.

Trisquel package is in DNS's [a]https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/misc/+packages?field.name_filter=h-client&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=|PPA[/a].

• Python 2.6 or 2.7
• Distribute
• pyGTK
• pycurl

(they would most likely be already installed).

Have to install python-setuptools in order to install the client:

sudo aptitude install python-setuptools

Here's one liner I put together to build the package.

cd ~/ && \
sudo apt-get install subversion checkinstall  python-setuptools && \
svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/h-client/trunk/h-client && \
cd h-client && \
version="0.$(svn log | grep r | cut -d ' ' -f1 | head -n1)" && \
sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop" --pkgname h-client \
--pkgversion "$version~svn" --backup=no --default python setup.py install && sudo ldconfig

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In order to install it type:

python setup.py install --user

and run it using:

~/.local/bin/h-client

(or just h-client if added ~/.local/bin to PATH).

If you are using Trisquel 4.0 you have to comment the row starting with "pycurl" inside the file setup.py (see the below piece of code) and install pycurl by means of the package manager

     install_requires=(
#        "pygtk",  # tries to get an old version
        #"pycurl"
        ),
    )

If it does not work try to empty the following folder:

~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

The project page is at Savannah. Some tasks to be done are listed at our main ToDo list.

To learn how to write a client to connect to h-node.org see the page how to send data to h-node.org