Application Developer Guide

Warning

This software framework is still under construction and no stable version has been released yet. Features, protocols and the behavior of individual components may still change.

📚 Tutorials

• Implementing a Satellite (C++)
  • Implementing the FSM Transitions
  • Running and the Stop Token
  • To Reconfigure or Not To Reconfigure
  • Setting Status Messages
  • Error Handling
    • Generic Errors
    • Configuration Errors
  • Building the Satellite
• Implementing a Satellite (Python)
  • Implementing the FSM Transitions
  • Running and the Stop Event
  • Installation of satellite

✏️ Adding Functionality

• Logging
• Sending Metrics
• Data Transmission
  • Transmitting Data
  • Data Format & Performance
  • Metadata
• Receiving Data in C++
  • Preparation: Validating Output Paths
  • Handling Data: Callbacks
• Custom Satellite Commands
  • The Command Registry
  • Registering The Command
  • Name and description
  • Command arguments and return values
  • Allowed FSM states

📖 How-To Guides

• Building External Satellites
  • Installing Constellation
  • Setting the pkg-config Search Path
  • Creating the Satellite Generator Interface
  • CMake Integration
• Porting a EUDAQ Producer
  • Porting the Finite State Machine Transitions
  • Transmitting Data
  • Adjusting the Logging Mechanism
  • Error Handling
• Increase Data Rate in C++
  • Impact of Larger Frames
  • Impact of more Frames per Message