Launch Falcon from command line

Command-line

falcon graph.yaml

usage: falcon [options] ... [graph file] ...
options:
-c, --config         configuration file (string [=$HOME/.falcon/config.yaml])
-a, --autostart      auto start processing (needs graph)
-d, --debug          show debug messages
    --noscreenlog    disable logging to screen
    --nocloudlog     disable logging to cloud
-t, --test           turn testing on by default
-v, --version        Show the falcon version number and exit.
-?, --help           print this message

A configuration file can be used to specify automatically this options + others used to affine the control in the whole system. Check out the Configuring falcon.

Note

The option specified in command line are prioritized against the options specified in the config file.

Control commands with a Falcon running graph

Keyboard commands

key	action
q	quit
i	info
r	start processing graph (run)
t	start processing in test mode
s	stop processing graph
k	stop processing and quit (kill)
y	display the current graph in yaml format
d	request documentation

Falcon-client gui

The graph is also controllable from a (remote) client. See this section for more details : Generic control app Commands are send from the client via zmq communication. See zmq_command