diff --git a/tangostationcontrol/docs/source/devices/sst-xst.rst b/tangostationcontrol/docs/source/devices/sst-xst.rst index cce03f691cc488c8c06d8910db9f3bd8da63a828..b3b0ec4603296d0a552ef932c253dd23bb6ffcc9 100644 --- a/tangostationcontrol/docs/source/devices/sst-xst.rst +++ b/tangostationcontrol/docs/source/devices/sst-xst.rst @@ -118,12 +118,12 @@ The easiest way to capture this stream is to use our ``statistics_writer``, whic - stores packet header information per timestamp, as HDF5 attributes, - writes to a new file at a configurable interval. -To run the writer:: +To install the software locally and run the writer:: - cd devices/statistics_writer - python3 statistics_writer.py --mode SST --host localhost + pip install 'tangostationcontrol@git+https://git.astron.nl/lofar2.0/tango.git#subdirectory=tangostationcontrol' + l2ss-statistics-writer --mode SST --host localhost -The correct port will automatically be chosen, depending on the given mode. See also ``statistics_writer.py -h`` for more information. +The correct port will automatically be chosen, depending on the given mode. See also ``l2ss-statistics-writer -h`` for more information. The writer can also parse a statistics stream stored in a file. This allows the stream to be captured and processed independently. Capturing the stream can for example be done using ``netcat``::