Questions about d-bus for a specific application

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 01:01:05PM +0000, Stern Guillaume wrote:
> Dear d-bus team,
> 
> I am working on a research project at HEIG-VD (engineering school in Switzerland) and I would like to make two computers communicate. The general idea is the following:
> 
> 
>   1.  Capture an image with a C++ application on the first computer (Windows-based)
>   2.  Send the image to the second computer (Linux-based)
>   3.  Process the image on the second computer with a Python program and determine a bounding box
>   4.  Send the bounding box coordinates back to the first computer
>   5.  Visualize the original image + bounding box on the first computer
> 
> If the process is working for one image, then the next step would be to have a video as input, processing the frames and determining the bounding boxes in real-time between the two computers.
> 
> I was told by one of my colleagues that d-bus could provide me a solution, so I read about it in the internet. However, I have a few questions:
> -is d-bus suitable for real-time applications?

How are you defining "real-time application" here?

And as you are dealing with a network, how does "real-time" come into
play at all?

> -more generally, do you think that d-bus would be adapted to my application?

I doubt it, as dbus as written, is not across a network, right?

good luck!

greg k-h