Hi Bill, See below
On 08/20/2016 01:41 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 20/08/2016 20:30, KI7MT wrote: >> It works OK on Linux ( Ubuntu 14.04 + Python 2.7.6 ) except it prints a >> bunch of unicode characters for spaces on each line, looks pretty bad. > The data is not plain text, the format is described in NetworkMessage.hpp. OK, I'll have a read through the hpp file. >> >> There are other ways to monitor decodes outside of UDP messaging using >> Python. You could simply parse the ALL_TXT file for the current time -1 >> minute at the top of each minute + <some time delay to allow for >> decoding or whatever>, or simply run the loop at time + 5 seconds or >> whatever in a loop. That would allow you to also format the line to you >> liking. > > Please do not read the log or temporary files that WSJT-X is writing > while WSJT-X is running, that leads to locks that can impact on WSJT-X > performance. The UDP protocol is intended to be the way to interact with > WSJT-X programmatically. There is a little work to be done to code the > routines to decode the data types used in the message, but once that is > done you will find everything you need from WSJT-X plus a few handy replies. What I've been doing for WSPR, which I assume is the same for other WSJT-X modes, was to simply copy the ALL_WSPR.TXT at T = 00 + 5 seconds to a file outside of the WSJT-X directory, then parse the tmp file for what I needed. I've not done this with the WSJT-X ALL.TXT file, only the ALL_WSPR.TXT file, but it should not be any different I wouldn't think. At one point I had a cron job doing this so I cold add the WSPR decodes to a Database for other activities. I don't think I ever tried to open the file(s) directly, for the reasons you stated above, and I don't recall ever having run into a lock file situation. I can't speak for others needs, but, for my purposes, I just want access to the decoded lines for the the various modes I run. A present, I don't have a need to talk to WSJT-X programatically unless that's the only way to get the decoded data I need without interfering with WSJT-X activities. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. 73's Greg, KI7MT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
