HISTORY.rst

History

2019.064 (2019-03-05)

• Converted for Python 2 or 3.
• Added -vl command that lists the files that have not been fully offloaded from the baler. -v just shows how many there are.
• Does not yet contain BaleAddr replacement code.

2019.259 (2019-09-16)

• New version (really BLINE2) that assigns the IP address to the baler, and erases data and Q330 association from the baler, thus removing the need for BaleAddr.

• The TagID of the baler to communicate with is still required on the command line, but the IP address of the baler is no longer required for every command on the command line.

• The Ethernet device name may be required when assigning the IP address to the baler (-b command) if BLINE says so (generally Python 2).

• These non-regular Python modules may need to be installed to get all of the new commands (-b, -X, -s) to work:

  psutil - all OSs and Python versions pexpect - Linux subprocess32 - all OSs when using Python 2

  Python 3 is recommended, since support for 2 is going away soon. pip/pip3 may be used to install the required modules.

2019.269 (2019-09-26)

• Caught a different program having trouble checking for updates. Put in some code as a possible fix.

• Collected the imports for all of the extra required modules into one place so all of the warnings come out at the same time. Use

  bline.py 5555 -b

  to get a list of the warnings. 5555 may be any number for this test.

• Fixed up the long version of the Help a bit.

2019.289 (2019-10-16)

• Added the -A command that will combine all of the offloaded files into a .ALL file.
• Added the -G command that will combine all of the files for a channel into one file. The file names are close to the miniseed file names produced by sdrsplit.
• Changed the command line switch for a couple commands.

2019.297 (2019-10-24)

• Enhanced the -G command and added the -GD command for concatenating the offloaded channel files.