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

I just use the "at" linux command to schedule my recordings.  Your script can handle the timestamps, gain, antenna settings, etc.    For example, to run bash_script.sh at 04:00  # at 04:00 -f bash_script.sh    To see queued executions,   # atq    This works really well for me.    PWG      On 02/08/2015 02:42 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:  > 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  >>  > 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.    Or you have a dedicated script that uses a 'head' block to record N  samples worth of time and terminates. Then, use some unix tool to call  that script whenever you need to.    M