lufah 0.4.3

Command line utility for controlling foldingathome version 8

lufah

Little Utility for FAH v8

This is a python command line utility script that should work on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Requirements

• python 3.8 or later

Install from PyPI

pip install lufah

Install from source

macOS / Linux / Windows

git clone https://github.com/kbernhagen/lufah.git
cd lufah
make install-user

Usage

Note that lufah uses unencrypted, direct websocket connections. This is what Web Control uses to connect to the local client. This has security implications if you enable direct remote access on a client. See HOWTO: Allow v8 Client Remote Control

usage: lufah [-h] [-v] [-d] [--version] <peer> <command> ...

Little Utility for FAH v8

positional arguments:
  <peer>             [host][:port][/group] Use "." for localhost. Peer can be
                     a comma-separated list of hosts for commands units, info,
                     fold, finish, pause: host[:port],host[:port],...
  <command>
    status           show json snapshot of client state
    units            show table of all units by group
    fold
    finish
    pause
    unpause          alias for fold
    config           get or set config values
    groups           show json array of resource group names
    create-group     create group if it does not exist
    info             show peer host and client info
    log              show log; use control-c to exit
    watch            show incoming messages; use control-c to exit
    get              show json value at dot-separated key path in client state
    unlink-account
    link-account     <account-token> [<machine-name>]
    restart-account  restart account/node connection
    wait-until-paused
                     run until all target groups seem paused
    enable-all-gpus  enable all unclaimed gpus in specified group
    start            start local client service; peer must be "."
    stop             stop local client service; peer must be "."

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose
  -d, --debug
  --version          show program's version number and exit

Examples

lufah . units
lufah /rg2 finish
lufah other.local/rg1 status
lufah /mygpu1 config cpus 0
lufah . config -h
lufah host1,host2,host3 units
lufah host1,host2,host3 info

Notes

If not given, the default command is 'units'.

In 8.3, /group config cpus <n> is not limited to unused cpus across groups.

Group names for fah 8.1 must:
  begin "/", have only letters, numbers, period, underscore, hyphen
Group names on 8.3 can have spaces and special chars.
Web Control 8.3 trims leading and trailing white space when creating groups.
Group "/" is taken to mean the default group, which is "".
For a group name actually starting with "/", use prefix "//".

An error may not be shown if the initial connection times out.
If group does not exist on 8.1, this script may hang until silent timeout.
Config priority does not seem to work. Cores are probably setting priority.
Commands start and stop are macOS-only.

Tricks

On macOS, if you have Homebrew installed, you can install watch to have an inefficient top-like units display. On Linux, you probably already have watch installed.

brew install watch

watch -n 10 lufah $(hostname) units

Example Output

lufah frotz.local units

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Project  CPUs  GPUs  Status          Progress  PPD       ETA
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
frotz/
18402    8     0     Finishing        35.1%    173973    10 hours 59 mins
frotz//two
18490    8     0     Running          80.7%    177621    1 hour 29 mins
frotz//tree