obspy.clients.seedlink.client.seedlinkconnection.SeedLinkConnection.collect

SeedLinkConnection.collect()

Manage a connection to a SeedLink server based on the values given in this SeedLinkConnection, and to collect data.

Designed to run in a tight loop at the heart of a client program, this function will return every time a packet is received.

If the SeedLinkConnection was initialized with a timeout, the collect() call will be terminated if it takes longer than self.timeout seconds to finish.

Returns:

an SLPacket when something is received.

Returns:

null when the connection was closed by the server or the termination sequence completed.

Raises:

SeedLinkException – on error.