Logging and debugging
All interactions with the user in the console is made using logging and an handler. Depending on the user desire, the level can be adjusted to limit or extend the verbosity of the app.
It is not recommended to set the stdout to logging.DEBUG level as it may fill the shell with messages and make it very hard to enter commands. Typically, ‘debug’ is sent to the file (see below).
By default, stderr is set to logging.CRITICAL and is not used; stdout is set to logging.INFO; file is set to logging.WARNING. The goal behind to not fill the file if it is not explicitly wanted.
Level
You can change the logging level using
import BAC0
BAC0.log_level(level)
# level being 'debug, info, warning, error'
# or
BAC0.log_leve(log_file=logging.DEBUG, stdout=logging.INFO, stderr=logging.CRITICAL)
File
A log file will be created under your user folder (~) / .BAC0 It will contain warnings by default until you change the level.
Extract from the log file (with INFO level entries)
2018-04-08 21:42:45,387 - INFO | Starting app...
2018-04-08 21:42:45,390 - INFO | BAC0 started
2018-04-08 21:47:21,766 - INFO | Changing device state to <class 'BAC0.core.devices.Device.DeviceDisconnected'>
2018-04-08 21:47:21,767 - INFO |
2018-04-08 21:47:21,767 - INFO | ###################################
2018-04-08 21:47:21,767 - INFO | # Read property
2018-04-08 21:47:21,768 - INFO | ###################################
2018-04-08 21:47:22,408 - INFO | value datatype
2018-04-08 21:47:22,409 - INFO | 'FX14 0005' <class 'bacpypes.primitivedata.CharacterString'>
2018-04-08 21:47:22,409 - INFO |
2018-04-08 21:47:22,409 - INFO | ###################################
2018-04-08 21:47:22,409 - INFO | # Read property
2018-04-08 21:47:22,409 - INFO | ###################################
2018-04-08 21:47:23,538 - INFO | value datatype
2018-04-08 21:47:23,538 - INFO | 'segmentedTransmit' <class 'bacpypes.basetypes.Segmentation'>
2018-04-08 21:47:23,538 - INFO | Changing device state to <class 'BAC0.core.devices.Device.RPMDeviceConnected'>
2018-04-08 21:47:29,510 - INFO | ###################################
2018-04-08 21:47:29,510 - INFO | # Read Multiple
2018-04-08 21:47:29,511 - INFO | ###################################
2018-04-08 21:47:30,744 - INFO |
2018-04-08 21:47:30,744 - INFO | ==================================================================================================================
2018-04-08 21:47:30,744 - INFO | 'analogValue' : 15
2018-04-08 21:47:30,744 - INFO | ==================================================================================================================
2018-04-08 21:47:30,745 - INFO | propertyIdentifier propertyArrayIndex value datatype
2018-04-08 21:47:30,745 - INFO | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-04-08 21:47:30,745 - INFO | 'objectName' None 'nciPIDTPRdCTI' <class 'bacpypes.primitivedata.CharacterString'>
2018-04-08 21:47:30,745 - INFO | 'presentValue' None 800.0 <class 'bacpypes.primitivedata.Real'>
2018-04-08 21:47:30,745 - INFO | 'units' None 'seconds' <class 'bacpypes.basetypes.EngineeringUnits'>
2018-04-08 21:47:30,746 - INFO | 'description' None 'nciPIDTPRdCTI' <class 'bacpypes.primitivedata.CharacterString'>
2018-04-10 23:18:26,184 - DEBUG | BAC0.core.app.ScriptApplication | ForeignDeviceApplication | ('do_IAmRequest %r', <bacpypes.apdu.IAmRequest(0) instance at 0x9064c88>)