option (multi) |
Long form synonym, single option* |
Function |
Notes |
| -m |
--manual | Do not start the robot automatically. Requires "startrobot" command. | otherwise the robot will start automatically, minutes before sunset |
| -E |
--emulate | Emulate the CCD camera and telescope hardware. | "Simulation mode", for software tests. |
| -p |
--park | Park the telescope and exit the program
(robot is NOT started) |
The Park position can be at zenith or
the pole, as set in the configuration file. |
| -ln |
--loglevel=n | Start robot with a logging level (n=0..8),
as follows: |
logging level applies to the current session
only |
| 0 = 'Emergency', system is unusable | |||
| 1 = 'Alert', serious error, action must be taken immediately | |||
| 2 = 'Critical', critical conditions | |||
| 3 = 'Error', standard error conditions | |||
| 4 = 'Warning', user is normally informed about it but may be ignored | |||
| 5 = 'Notice', normal but significant conditions | |||
| 6 = 'Info', informational messages (a.k.a. verbose) | |||
| 7 = 'Debug', normally not shown to the user, disabled in release mode | currently used value in the configuration
file |
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| 8 = 'Debug level 2', extra verbose debug output | |||
| -e |
--email=EMAILADDR | Start the robot but email the error reports to the given address | to send error reports to an address different
from that in the configuration file (currently nom), e.g. yourself. |
| -d |
--daemon | run in the background (as a daemon) | not yet used at ING |
| -t |
--testtelescope | Check whether the telescope is online and then exit | Does not start robot. Useful check for
telescope power. |
| -c |
--testccd | Check whether the CCD camera is online and then exit | Does not start robot. Useful check for
CCD power. |
| -r |
--recalcseeing=DBNAME | Recalculate all seeing values for the centroids in the database DBNAME. Note: to recalculate data that was recorded in emulation mode, combine the -E option with this | DANGER! Executable by "root". can overwrite current DB!!! |
| -x |
-x, --recalcext=DBNAME | Recalculate all extinction AND seeing values for the centroids in the database DBNAME. Note: to recalculate data recorded in emulation mode, combine the -E option with this | DANGER! Executable by "root". can overwrite current DB |
| -n |
-n, --dbnowrite | Test mode, do not write recalculated seeing values to the database. | Only works in combination with the option
'-r' |
| -v |
-v, --version | Print version information and exit | Prints version at start with all options
in any case. |
| -s |
--status | Starts robot using current window as a Status Screen (ncurses) | Alternative to a scrolling-message output.
Can be unclear unless window correct size. |
| -S |
--testseeing [files] | Calculate a seeing value from the fits-files given on the command line. Also shows detailed information on the way it is calculated. The altitude is read from the files. | |
| -D |
--watchdogcheck | Check whether the RoboDIMM software (this software) is still functioning properly. If that is not the case, the telescope will be parked and all robodimm instances will be killed. |