scheli

Real-time helicorder view for one stream

Description

scheli visualizes waveforms from a single station mimicking a drum-recorder plot (see scheli).

Features

• scheli plots configurable traces in helicorder style
• Configurable GUI: trace colors, visualized time spans, number of rows, data filtering, amplitude ranges and much more.
• Automatic image capture: capture helicorder images at configurable time intervals and a set of channels

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Examples

Simple helicorder window:

Let scheli show data from the CX station PB01 for the previous 5 hours.

scheli --stream=CX.PB01..HHZ --rows 10

Image capture:

Capture the helicorder plot for 3 stations in intervals of 10 seconds. The data is retrieved using seedlink and the plots are stored as PNG images. The image files are named according to network, station, stream and location codes of the requested stations.

scheli capture --heli.streams="CX.PB01..HHZ,CX.PB02..HHZ,CX.PB04..HHZ" --interval=10 -o "/tmp/heli_%N_%S_%L_%C.png" -H localhost -I slink://localhost

Setup

Colors of traces etc. can be adjusted by setting the scheme parameters in the global configuration of scheli. For alternating colors between the traces set the parameters scheme.colors.records.foreground and scheme.colors.records.alternateForeground in scheli.cfg, e.g. as for the example in the figure scheli:

# The general color of records/traces.
scheme.colors.records.foreground = 4286F4

# A general trace color of the alternate trace (eg scheli).
scheme.colors.records.alternateForeground = B72D0E

Configuration

etc/defaults/global.cfg

etc/defaults/scheli.cfg

etc/global.cfg

etc/scheli.cfg

~/.seiscomp3/global.cfg

~/.seiscomp3/scheli.cfg

scheli inherits global options.

scripts.postprocessing

Type: path

Defines the path to a script that is called whenever an image has been captured and written to disc. The only parameter is the path to the generated image.

Command-line

Generic

-h, --help

show help message.

-V, --version

show version information

--config-file arg

Use alternative configuration file. When this option is used the loading of all stages is disabled. Only the given configuration file is parsed and used. To use another name for the configuration create a symbolic link of the application or copy it, eg scautopick -> scautopick2.

--plugins arg

Load given plugins.

-D, --daemon

Run as daemon. This means the application will fork itself and doesn’t need to be started with &.

--auto-shutdown arg

Enable/disable self-shutdown because a master module shutdown. This only works when messaging is enabled and the master module sends a shutdown message (enabled with –start-stop-msg for the master module).

--shutdown-master-module arg

Sets the name of the master-module used for auto-shutdown. This is the application name of the module actually started. If symlinks are used then it is the name of the symlinked application.

--shutdown-master-username arg

Sets the name of the master-username of the messaging used for auto-shutdown. If “shutdown-master-module” is given as well this parameter is ignored.

Verbosity

--verbosity arg

Verbosity level [0..4]. 0:quiet, 1:error, 2:warning, 3:info, 4:debug

-v, --v

Increase verbosity level (may be repeated, eg. -vv)

-q, --quiet

Quiet mode: no logging output

--component arg

Limits the logging to a certain component. This option can be given more than once.

-s, --syslog

Use syslog logging back end. The output usually goes to /var/lib/messages.

-l, --lockfile arg

Path to lock file.

--console arg

Send log output to stdout.

--debug

Debug mode: –verbosity=4 –console=1

--log-file arg

Use alternative log file.

Messaging

-u, --user arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.username.

-H, --host arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.server.

-t, --timeout arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.timeout.

-g, --primary-group arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.primaryGroup.

-S, --subscribe-group arg

A group to subscribe to. This option can be given more than once.

--encoding arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.encoding.

--start-stop-msg arg

Sets sending of a start- and a stop message.

Database

--db-driver-list

List all supported database drivers.

-d, --database arg

The database connection string, format: service://user:pwd@host/database. “service” is the name of the database driver which can be queried with “–db-driver-list”.

--config-module arg

The configmodule to use.

--inventory-db arg

Load the inventory from the given database or file, format: [service://]location

Records

--record-driver-list

List all supported record stream drivers

-I, --record-url arg

The recordstream source URL, format: [service://]location[#type]. “service” is the name of the recordstream driver which can be queried with “–record-driver-list”. If “service” is not given “file://” is used.

--record-file arg

Specify a file as record source.

--record-type arg

Specify a type for the records being read.

Mode

--offline

Do not connect to a messaging server and do not use the database.

--end-time arg

Set the acquisition end time, e.g. ‘2017-09-08 13:30:00’, default: ‘gmt’

Data

--stream arg

The record stream that should be displayed: stream=net.sta.loc.cha

--filter arg

The filter to apply

--gain arg

Gain applied to the data before plotting. Units: counts/unit

--amp-range-min arg

Lower bound of amplitude range per row

--amp-range-max arg

Upper bound of amplitude range per row

--amp-range arg

Arround zero bound of amplitude range per row

--record-time arg

Does the last row always contain the last record received

Output

--desc arg

Enables/disables the display of a station description

--rows arg

Configures the number of rows to display

--time-span arg

Configures the time-span (in secs) per row. Unit: seconds.

--aa arg

Sets antialiasing for rendering the traces

--xres arg

Output x resolution when generating images. Unit: dpi.

--yres arg

Output y resolution when generating images. Unit: dpi.

--dpi arg

Output dpi when generating postscript. Unit: dpi.

-o arg

Output filename (placeholders: %N,%S,%L,%C)

--interval arg

Snapshot interval (less than 0 disables timed snapshots). Unit: seconds.