Executing KW in parallel in robotframework - robotframework

Use case
I have many mobile devices connected , i need to make connection to each devices and open dialer on them and then perform some actions using Appium.
I have keyword which can do this task for me.
for example , i have keyword
Start dialer on devices
The limitation is that, this KW will run on each device one by one,
a single device takes approximately 3 minutes.
So if 5 devices are connected , this will be 15 minute task.
is there any way by which i can execute the KW in parallel and save some time.

We use pabot for running test suites in parallel which is really helpful:
https://github.com/mkorpela/pabot
You will need to change your command when running Robot Tests to use pabot instead of robot

There are several async libraries implement for robot framework. Perhaps you can take a look at Here or Here

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For testing it, i want to run another process that creates and writes to fifo, while my test (using catch2) will read from this fifo.
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read and copy buffer from kernel in CPU to kernel in FPGA with OpenCL

I'm trying to speed up Ethash algorithm on Xilinx u50 FPGA. My problem is not about FPGA, it is about pass DAG file that are generated in CPU and send it to FPGA.
first I'm using this code in my test. I made a few changes to support Intel OpenCL driver. now if I only using CPU to run Ethash (or in this case xleth) program all process are be done. but in my case I first generate DAG file in CPU and with using 4 core it take 30 second for generating epoch number 0. after that I wanna pass DAG file (in code showing with m_dag) to a new buffer look like g_dag to send it in u50 HBMs.
I can't using only one context in this program, because I'm using 2 separated kernel files (.cl for CPU and .xclbin for FPGA) and when I try to make program and kernel it send me error 33 (CL_INVALID_DEVICE). so I make separate context (with name g_context).
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How to customize BlueZ?

I will be asking a very subjective question, but it is important as I am looking to recover from failure to effectively use BlueZ programatically.
Basically I envision an IoT edge device that runs on a miniature computer (Ex: Raspberry pi or Intel Compute Stick). The device would then run AlpineLinux OS and interact with Cloud.
Since it is IoT environment, it is needless to mention the importance of Bluetooth BLE over ISM band. Hence the central importance of being able to customize and work with BlueZ.
I am looking to do several things with BlueZ BLE including but not limited to
Advertising
Pairing
Characteristic
Broadcast
Secure transport of data etc...
Since I will be needing full control over data, for data-processing and interacting with cloud (Edge AI or Data-science on Cloud) I am looking at three ways of using BlueZ:
Make DBus API calls to BlueZ Methods.
Modify BlueZ codebase and make install a custom bin.
(So that callback handlers can be registered and wealth of other bluez
methods can be invoked)
Invoke BlueZ using command line utils like hcitool/bluetoothctl inside a program using system() calls.
No 1 is where I have failed. It is exorbitant amount of effort to construct and export DBus objects and then to invoke BlueZ methods. Plus there is no guarantee that you will be able to take care of all BLE issues.
No 2 looks very promising and I want to fully explore how feasible it is to modify the BlueZ code to my needs.
No 3 is the least desirable option, but I want to have it as a fallback option nevertheless.
Given my problem statement, what is the most viable strategy forward? I am asking this aloud so that I do not make more missteps and cost myself time and efforts.
Your best strategy is to start with the second way (which you already found promising) as this is a viable solution and many developers go about this method in order to create their BlueZ programs. Here is what I would do:-
Write all the functionality of the system in some sort of flowchart or state machine. This helps you visualise your whole system and what needs to be done to reach your end goal.
Try to perform all the above functionality manually using bluetoothctl and btmgmt. This includes advertising, pairing, etc. I recommend steering away from legacy commands such as hcitool and hciconfig as these have been deprecated and have a very different code structure.
When stumbling upon something that is not the default in bluetoothctl/btmgmt or you want to tweak the functionality, update the source to do so.
Finally, once you manually get the system to perform the functionality that you need (it doesn't have to be all, it can just be a subset of the functions), you can move to automating the whole process. This involves modifying the source for bluetoothctl/btmgmt commands so that instead of manual intervention, everything would be event-driven.
This is a bonus, but if you can create automated tests using python or some other scripting language, then this would ensure that your system is robust and that previous functionality doesn't break when adding new ones.
By the end of this process, you'll have a much better understanding of the internals of bluetoothctl/btmgmt and D-BUS APIs that you might be able to completely detach your code from the original bluetoothctl/btmgmt or create the program from scratch.
You probably already know this, but when modifying the tools, this is the starting point for the source code:-
bluetoothctl - client/main.c
btmgmt - tools/btmgmt.c
For more references on using bluetoothctl commands and btmgmt, please see the links below:-
BlueZ D-Bus C or C++ Sample
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/51876272/2215147
Bluez Programming
Linux command line howto accept pairing for bluetooth device without pin
https://stackoverflow.com/a/52982329/2215147
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I'm trying to conect my PX4Flow sensor to a raspberry pi. It seems that nearly everybody is using qgroundcontrol to access and control it. But as I'd like to integrate it into some bigger program, I'd like to control it with some self-written simple python code, if possible.
My aim is to:
access the camera (to measure the speed - later)
get gyrometer values
I don't need the ultra sonic sensor.
I found out that I can use MAVlink for the communication between the px4flow sensor and the raspberry pi. I cloned the git repository and followed the steps on https://github.com/mavlink/mavlink until the generation of header file (python -m mavgenerate). With that, I can generate a new python file. I don't know if this is correct, and I don't know what to do with that python file. No more file (header files) are copied or generated. How do I go on? How do I use the library? How do I even test the connection?
If I understand you correctly, you want to make a module to communicate with PX4Flow.
I have some experience in building a ground control station with ardupilot. I think the procedure is roughly the same:
Generate the proper mavlink library, what you have done by using mavgenerate. Read some guidance of mavlink communication procedure.
Read the source code in PX4Flow communication module https://github.com/PX4/Flow/blob/master/src/modules/flow/communication.c, which shows what kind of messages have been sent to client side (e.g. your communication module)
Start write the module code to communicate with PX4Flow. You may need to start with HEARTBEAT msg first to establish connections between your module and PX4Flow. Note that you can always receive HEARTBEAT messages from PX4Flow. You can start with decoding these ones.
Implement your other functionalities.
You can read sources code of QGourndControl during step 3 and step 4. Make sure to find the right module in its repo.
My communication module is built using JavaScript https://github.com/kvenux/nodegcs, if it helps.

How can I see detailed work of nodes on a Rocks Cluster?

I built a Rocks Cluster for my school project, which is matrix multiplication, with one frontend and 5 other computers which are nodes. Over MPI I send them partions of matrix which they use for multiplication and then they send data back. Command which I run is:
mpirun -hostfile myhostfile ./myprogram
where myhostfile is a file of names of nodes and their slots(thread) numbers.
My program is working and I'm trying to analize it now.
My question is how can i see the work of each nodes core/processor working on his task, are the all processors working, is there some kind of overload?
I tried to install Vampir profiler and Intels Vtune Amplifierbut but I have some problems attaching them to my program with this command above (other comands dont allow me to run my programs on all threads of a node). All that i have accomplished (to see my nodes working good besides Ganglia) is to login to a node from the frontend and with the command "top" I could see when my program is executing by the number of threads and almost 100% CPU usage on each thread.
Take a look at mpstat
With no params it will show aggregated load for all cores
mpstat -P ALL shows load for each core
This will give you realtime stats for your nodes:
watch pdsh -w compute-01-[01-10] mpstat
(use your compute nodes names)

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