Hi all, I wrote small pure-python kactp client class. It imitates most of the behavior of the corr.katcp_wrapper.FpgaClient class, but exists in a single standalone file (attached) and is compatible with python 2.4 and most operating systems. It probably isn't a true KATCP client implementation, but it does forward most of the requests described at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/KATCP
With luck, this will be useful to anyone who either needs ROACH controls
running on something really backwards (as we did) or new casperites who are
unfamiliar with python and are daunted by the task of setting up the
standard katcp library.
It isn't quite complete yet--I haven't implemented a tap-start call simply
because I have never used it and wouldn't know what sort of response to
expect back from tcpborphserver. If anyone can give this to me, I can put
this in the client in a few minutes--the whole thing is really just a
glorified tcp socket.
Anyone who wants to try it can just put roach_katcp.py in the working
directory and
from roach_katcp import *
roach = BlockingClient('some_ip')
roach.progdev('some_file')
data = roach.read('some_register',4)
much like the corr version, but without all the dependencies. More details
are in the code comments.
-Alex
roach_katcp.py
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