Receiver commands

Commands to configure the receiver. Not used in MYTHEN.

• receiver [s] starts/stops the receiver to listen to detector packets. Options: [ start, stop]. Returns (string) status of receiver[ idle, running].

• r_online [i] sets/gets the receiver in online/offline mode. 1 is online, 0 is offline. Get is from shared memory. Returns (int)

• r_checkonline Checks the receiver if it is online/offline mode. Only get! Returns (string) "All online" or "[list of offline hostnames] : Not online".

• framescaught gets the number of frames caught by receiver. Average of all for multi-detector command. Only get! Returns (int)

• resetframescaught [i] resets the number of frames caught to 0. i can be any number. Use this if using status start, instead of acquire (this command is included). Only put! Returns (int)

• frameindex [i] gets the current frame index of receiver. Average of all for multi-detector command. Only get! Returns (int)

• r_lock [i] locks/unlocks the receiver to communicate with only this client. 1 locks, 0 unlocks. Returns (int)

• r_lastclient gets the last client communicating with the receiver. Only get! Returns (int)

• r_readfreq [i] sets/gets the stream frequency of data from receiver to client. i > 0 is the nth frame being streamed. 0 sets frequency to a default timer (200ms). Returns (int)

• rx_fifodepth [i] sets/gets receiver fifo (between Listener and Writer Threads) depth to i number of frames. Can improve listener packet loss (loss due to packet processing time in Listener threads), not if limited by writing. Returns (int)

• r_silent [i] sets/gets receiver in silent mode, ie. it will not print anything during real time acquisition. 1 sets, 0 unsets. Returns (int)