Starting the schedule

Obtaining the observation schedule

Once the observation trigger has been given each station should download the corresponding schedule file (vex format). The schedules can be downloaded here (to be updated).

The vex file should be downloaded to the Mark6 recorder as user oper into the directory  /home/oper.

Translating the vex file

The downloaded vex file must be converted to a mark6 schedule file. As user oper execute:

/home/oper/bin/vex2xml.py -f {vexfile} -s {code} 

{vexfile}: file name of the vexfile
{code}: two letter station code of your local station. 

IMPORTANT: The station code must match the 2-letter code assigned to your station in the vex-file exactly (case sensitive).

This will produce a file named after the vexfile but having the .xml extension in the current directory.

Loading the schedule

There are two ways to execute the schedule

M6_CC -f {xmlfile} 

{xmlfile}: the xml file produced in the previous step

start_eht.py {schedule.xml}

start_eht.py --help will display additional options