tcs-client 1.0.0

Python Client for the Telescope Control System

TCS Client

Library to handle TCS (Telescope Control System) commands and work as client.

This library implements a TCP/IP socket following the SCLN protocol, this is 4 bytes to define the message length followed by the message itself using a big-endian and ASCII coding.

It will triggers a TCSError exception on failure, otherwise each command will return a dictionary with two keys, raw_response and response.

{
  raw_response: "<COMMAND RESPONSE>",
  response: [],
  key1: "value1",
  key2: "value2"
}

• raw_response value is a string with the TCS response.
• response value is a list of all single words received in the TCS response.
• All other strings which match the format key=value are splitted and appended to the response dictionary, as shown for key1 and key2, if more than 1 key is received, the next keys will be named key[i] with i an increasing index.