Repeat recording

[Frank-Bosman]

Repeat recording

Currently to repeat a recording an new SensorEmulator should be made. This is because it can not start the timer again as that would recreate an existing thread.

To fix this I did the following in the PlotterDemo, but it is kinda messy because you reassign the manager.

 if not manager.is_running():
        print(f"Emulation ended, {'restarting..' if repeat_recording else 'shutting down...'}")
        if repeat_recording and not live_data_mode:
            manager.stop()
            manager = SensorEmulator(recording_file)
            manager.start()
        else:
            plt.close("all")

Recreate the bug

Start an emulator, stop it and then start it again:

manager = SensorEmulator('demoRecording')
manager.start()
time.sleep(1)
manager.stop()
manager.start()
time.sleep(2)
manager.stop()

[JonaMata]

When fixing this, do you think automatically repeating the recording as long as the emulator runs would be okay?

[FrankBosman]

When fixing this, do you think automatically repeating the recording as long as the emulator runs would be okay?

yeah, just repeat it automatically until they call manager.stop. Furthermore, make it an opt-in feature.