Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to schedule iq recordings?

On 02/07/2015 08:37 PM, John Meloche wrote:

Hello

I have a need to record raw iq files of varing lengths of time and each iq file needs to have a unique file name.  I am at the point now where i can record and iq file with a time stamp of the pc clock.  That is perfect so far, however, i need to automate this so that i can schedule multple recordings of 5 minutes with a 1 minute standby between each recording just as an example.  the timings need to be flexible.  my issue is that my super simple record iq flow graph runs until i manualy close it.  are there any ideas out there?  thanks a lot guys.  John

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The file-sink will start a new file every time you give it a new filename.

There are, as in most programming exercises, a flarbillion (that's a technical term) ways of accomplishing any given task.  You might try, for example,
  using a variable-name for your filesink filename (are you already doing that?), and then using XMLRPC for an outside 'scheduler' to tell it the new
  filenames, and while you're in a "record nothing" timeframe, just have it recording to /dev/null.