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make_and_track_ephems doesn #2

Closed wfarah closed 3 years ago

wfarah commented 3 years ago

The function make_and_track_ephems:

https://github.com/SETIatHCRO/ATA-Utils/blob/ata-rest/pythonLibs/ATATools/ata_control.py#L294

should wait until antennas have fully acquired position before returning to replicate the behaviour of the previous function (atatrackephem -w ...). Currently, observing scripts can start calibrating/observing while the antennas are slewing

tkoumrian commented 3 years ago

@wfarah You can try an experiment of adding key/value pair in the dict JSON parameters to the put() call on line 309 ’wait’: True And try to see if it works or you get a timeout exception. It can be a long time to get on source, and this might hit a server timeout. Let me know what happens, or I can test it sometime when the array is free.

wfarah commented 3 years ago

@tkoumrian the wait calls seem to work for the functions you have edited. However, I tried adding json={'wait': True} to the set_az_el and park_antennas functions, but the calls didn't seem to block. Are there changes that need to happen on the ata_rest side for these edits to take effect? I think once these are implemented, this issue can be closed, and we can merge the branches.