AuroraSensor

class lsst.ts.ess.common.sensor.AuroraSensor(log: Logger, num_channels: int = 0)

Bases: BaseSensor

Aurora Cloud Sensor Reader.

Perform protocol conversion for an Aurora Cloud Sensor.

Attributes Summary

charset

delimiter

terminator

Methods Summary

extract_telemetry(line)

Extract the temperature telemetry from a line of Sensor data.

Attributes Documentation

charset = 'ASCII'
delimiter = ','
terminator = '\n'

Methods Documentation

async extract_telemetry(line: str) → list[float | int | str]

Extract the temperature telemetry from a line of Sensor data.

Parameters:
linestr

A line of comma separated telemetry, each of the format described in lsst.ts.ess.common.aurora_cloud_sensor_

Returns:
outputlist

A list of values containing the telemetry as measured by the sensor. There are seven elements in the list:

  • Sequence number

  • Sensor (ambient) temperature (°C)

  • Sky temperature (°C)

  • Clarity, a.k.a. difference between ambient and sky temperature

  • Light level (units unknown)

  • Rain level (units unknown)

  • Alarm code