Threading and loops

[rkaneknight]

I've edited scanner.py to serve my purposes by creating the _mon in the start, and deleting it in the stop. Not sure if this is a good way to handle it as I don't understand python as well as you do. I wanted to check the same beacon on a 5 second interval and produce a log of the RSSI values. But with your code I was trying to start a thread again which yielded an error message.

This is the code change that I made starting at line 51 of scanner.py self.callback=callback self.bt_device_id=bt_device_id self.device_filter=device_filter self.packet_filter=packet_filter

def start(self):
    """Start beacon scanning."""
    self._mon = Monitor(self.callback, self.bt_device_id, self.device_filter, self.packet_filter)
    self._mon.start()

def stop(self):
    """Stop beacon scanning."""
    self._mon.terminate()
    del(self._mon)

Maybe you have already created a way for me to do what I want, or maybe this is a better approach since the thread is destroyed and recreated on start/stop.

[stephane42]

you can also start the scan at the begining of you main and use scanner._mon.toggle_scan(True/False) in your loop to stop scanning during process.

[RafalSkolasinski]

Not sure if related: when one start and then stop scanning after trying to start it again I am getting:

RuntimeError: threads can only be started once