Running jAER completely on CLI

[Gokul B Nair]

Hi,

Is it possible to run jAER application in a completely headless manner? If yes, can I open the UDP ports, and control actions such data record/pause, all from just the command line without having to open the GUI? 

Thanks, 
Gokul B. Nair

[Tobi Delbruck]

I guess you mean without the GUI interface?   It is not currently possible but such option could be added with a few days work. jAER does provide remote control interface for the AEViewer and for the AEChip on separate UDP ports, but not all menu items have a remote control command implemented.

The closet thing currently is the remote viewer in net.sf.jaer.jaerappletviewer. That was developed to show DVS output from an early prototype network DVS128 that streamed event data over multicast UDP packets.

[Tobi Delbruck]

It might take more work because there are many places in code that assume there is an existing AEViewer. The AEViewer would need to refactored to add option to not create OpenGL ChipCanvas and all the filters that annotate the filter results on the AEViewer would need refactoring to ensure check for existence of ChipCanvas to annotate to.