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many adjustments to the loops and timing
many adjustments to the loops and timing
now sends the hardware updates only when clients change, but at least 1Hz
new option to adjust the rate of the loop that considers sending changes (if
the lights have changed)
| author | drewp |
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| date | Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:59:09 +0000 |
| parents | b75bfbcf5979 |
| children | 2dfe2c0ba052 |
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| 0 | 1 """ module for clients to use for easy talking to the dmx |
| 2 server. sending levels is now a simple call to | |
| 3 dmxclient.outputlevels(..) | |
| 4 | |
| 5 client id is formed from sys.argv[0] and the PID. """ | |
| 6 | |
| 7 import xmlrpclib,os,sys,socket,time | |
| 8 _dmx=None | |
| 9 | |
| 10 _id="%s-%s" % (sys.argv[0].replace('.py','').replace('./',''),os.getpid()) | |
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12 def outputlevels(levellist): |
| 0 | 13 """present a list of dmx channel levels, each scaled from |
| 14 0..1. list can be any length- it will apply to the first len() dmx | |
| 15 channels. | |
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| 17 if the server is not found, outputlevels will block for a | |
| 18 second.""" | |
| 19 | |
| 20 global _dmx,_id | |
| 21 | |
| 22 if _dmx is None: | |
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23 _dmx=xmlrpclib.Server("http://localhost:8030") |
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25 try: |
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26 _dmx.outputlevels(_id,levellist) |
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27 except socket.error,e: |
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28 print "dmx server error %r, waiting"%e |
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29 time.sleep(1) |
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30 except xmlrpclib.Fault,e: |
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31 print "outputlevels had xml fault: %s" % e |
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32 time.sleep(1) |
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