fix: move interpreter to a thread

arena/arena_mqtt.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import ssl
 import sys
 from datetime import datetime
+import threading 
 
 import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
 
@@ -149,13 +150,8 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.msg_queue = asyncio.Queue()
 
-        # check if we want to start the command interpreter
-        enable_interp = os.getenv("ENABLE_INTERPRETER", 'False').lower() in ('true', '1', 't')
-        if enable_interp: 
-            self.cmd_interpreter = ArenaCmdInterpreter(self, 
-                                                       show_attrs=('config_data', 'scene', 'users', 'auth', 'all_objects', 'msg_io'), 
-                                                       get_callables=('persisted_objs', 'persisted_scene_option', 'writable_scenes', 'user_list'))
-            self.run_async(self.cmd_interpreter.cmd_loop_task)
+        # setup event to let others wait on connection 
+        self.connected_evt = threading.Event()
 
         # connect to mqtt broker
         if "port" in kwargs:
@@ -173,6 +169,14 @@ def __init__(
             print(f'MQTT connect error to {self.mqtt_host}, port={port}: Result Code={err}')
         self.mqttc.socket().setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_SNDBUF, 2048)
 
+        # check if we want to start the command interpreter
+        enable_interp = os.getenv("ENABLE_INTERPRETER", 'False').lower() in ('true', '1', 't')
+        if enable_interp: 
+            self.cmd_interpreter = ArenaCmdInterpreter(self, 
+                                                       show_attrs=('config_data', 'scene', 'users', 'auth', 'all_objects', 'msg_io'), 
+                                                       get_callables=('persisted_objs', 'persisted_scene_option', 'writable_scenes', 'user_list'))
+            self.cmd_interpreter.start_thread(self.connected_evt)
+
 
     def parse_cli(self):
         """
@@ -297,6 +301,9 @@ def on_connect(self, client, userdata, flags, rc):
 
             print("Connected!")
             print("=====")
+
+            # set event
+            self.connected_evt.set()
         else:
             print(f"Connection error! Result code={rc}")
 

arena/utils/cmd_interpreter.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # A simple command interpreter 
 
-import cmd, os, json, asyncio
+import cmd, os, json, asyncio, threading, time
 from datetime import date, datetime
 class ArenaCmdInterpreter(cmd.Cmd):
     intro = 'Type help or ? to list available commands.\n'
@@ -20,10 +20,14 @@ def __init__(self, scene, show_attrs=('config_data', 'scene', 'users', 'auth', '
         self._show_attrs = show_attrs
         self._get_callables = get_callables
 
-    # cmd loop; must externally setup a task/thread to run this
-    def cmd_loop_task(self):
+    def __cmd_loop_thread(self, start_cmd_event):
+        if start_cmd_event: start_cmd_event.wait(5) # try to start cmd last; wait on event with timeout
         self.cmdloop()
-
+
+    def start_thread(self, start_cmd_event=None):
+        t = threading.Thread(name='interpreter_thread', target=self.__cmd_loop_thread, args=(start_cmd_event,))
+        t.start()
+
     def do_show(self, arg):
         if arg not in self._show_attrs:
             self.help_show()
@@ -58,8 +62,6 @@ def do_exit(self, arg):
             answer = input("This will terminate the ARENA program. Are you sure [Y/N]? ").lower()
         if answer == "y":
             print("Exiting...")
-            loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
-            loop.stop()
             os._exit(0)
 
         return True