FrameSimulator

The FrameSimulator is used primarily for testing and development. It is used to create a data stream for testing the FrameReceiver and FrameProcessor.

Commandline Interface

The following options and arguments can be given on the commandline:

$ prefix/bin/frameSimulator --help
usage: frameSimulator <detector> --lib-path <path-to-detector-plugin> [options]

  --version            Print version information
  --debug-level        Set the debug level
  --logconfig          Set the log4cxx logging configuration file

Further options are given if a FrameSimulator plugin is specified, e.g. for the DummyUDPFrameSimulatorPlugin:

$ prefix/bin/frameSimulator DummyUDP --lib-path prefix/lib --help
1 [0x7f481659da80] DEBUG FS.FrameSimulatorPlugin null - Populating base

...

Detector options:
  --ports arg (=9999)            Provide a (comma separated) port list
  --frames arg (=1000)           Number of frames (-1 sends all frames)
  --interval arg (=0.0199999996) Transmission interval between frames (s)
  --dest-ip arg                  Destination IP address
  --pcap-file arg                Packet capture file
  --packet-gap arg               Pause between N packets
  --drop-fraction arg            Fraction of packets to drop
  --drop-packets arg             Packet number(s) to drop
  --width arg                    Simulated image width
  --height arg                   Simulated image height
  --packet-len arg               Length of simulated packets in bytes