Asynchronous Session

The pymanip.asyncsession.AsyncSession class provides tools to manage an asynchronous experimental session. It is the main tool that we use to set up monitoring of experimental systems, alongside FluidLab device management facilities. It will manage the storage for the data, as well as several asynchronous functions for use during the monitoring of the experimental system such as live plot of monitored data, regular control email, and remote HTTP access to the live data by human (connection from a web browser 1), or by a machine using the pymanip.asyncsession.RemoteObserver class. It has methods to access the data for processing during the experiment, or post-processing after the experiment is finished.

Read-only access to the asyncsession data can be achieved with the pymanip.asyncsession.SavedAsyncSession class.

For synchronous session, one can still use the deprecated classes from pymanip.session, but these will no longer be updated, therefore the asynchronous session should now always be preferred.

Contents:

• Data management
• Task management
• Remote access
• Implementation

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The default port is 6913, but it can be changed, or turned off by passing appropriate argument to pymanip.asyncsession.AsyncSession.monitor().