Hi Sean,
yes, the scheduler "supports" this; I'm using this whenever I just need someone
to receive messages.
So basically you do 1), which is quite easy because your "block" looks like
from pmt.pmt_to_python import pmt_to_python as pmt2py
[...]
class messageReceiver(gr.sync_block):
message_port_identifier = pmt.intern("msg_in")
def __init__(self, ref_to_uhd_sink):
gr.sync_block.__init__(self, name="foo", in_sig=[], out_sig=[])
self._uhd = _ref_to_uhd_sink
self.message_port_register_in(self.message_port_identifier)
self.set_msg_handler(self.message_port_identifier, self.handle_msg)
def handle_msg(self, msg):
print "got message", pmt2py(msg)
self._uhd->set_command_time[...]
Happy Hacking,
Marcus
On 09/04/2013 10:28 PM, Nowlan, Sean wrote:
The implementation of the uhd_control_port block in gnuradio-extras has an
empty work function because it doesn't actually process any samples. I believe
gnuradio-extras uses the gnuradio advanced scheduler (GRAS), so apparently GRAS
doesn't mind blocks that don't have any connections in a flowgraph or do any
work. Does the standard gnuradio scheduler also support this? I just want to
know for reference if the gnuradio scheduler will keep or ignore a block with
no connections, or empty io_signatures, or no code body in the work function.
What I want to do is change power using timed commands independent of the data
path in the flowgraphs. I can do this one of two ways:
1) Make a block with a message queue and some logic to handle timing (to play
nice with the timed commands implementation, which has a limited FIFO size and
only a 10 second timeout window).
2) Launch a separate thread in Python that does the same thing as 1) but isn't
a block. I assume this will be a lot easier.
--sean
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