pyrad.flow.main_rt#

pyrad.flow.main_rt(cfgfile_list, starttime=None, endtime=None, infostr_list=None, proc_period=60, proc_finish=None, hide_warnings=False)[source]#

main flow control. Processes radar data in real time. The start and end processing times can be determined by the user. This function is inteded for a single radar

Parameters:

cfgfile_list (list of str) – path of the main config files
starttime, endtime (datetime object) – start and end time of the data to be processed
infostr_list (list of str) – Information string about the actual data processing (e.g. ‘RUN57’). This string is added to product files.
proc_period (int) – period of time before starting a new processing round (seconds)
proc_finish (int or None) – if set to a value the program will be forced to shut down after the value (in seconds) from start time has been exceeded
hide_warnings (bool) – if set to true it will hide the warnings during the pyrad processing this is useful when logging the outputs to log files, as they can become very large

Returns:

end_proc (Boolean) – If true the program has ended successfully