Get the name of a program sent through the realtime server

Technical Questions Robot Communication
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Hi everyone,

Does somebody knows how to get the program name of a program sent through the realtime interface? For example, let say I send this program to the realtime server (30003)

def myprog():
   ....
end

How can I get the information that the robot is currently running the program myprog?

As it is displayed in the log I imagine there is a way to get this information.

The dashboard server (29999) only displays the loaded program in Polyscope.

Thanks.

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If I remember correctly the logs are being streamed on port 30001 as one of the streaming data packets. I’m not aware of any request response type commands to retrieve that.

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You can connect to the real-time client on port 30003 and receive the real-time data stream from that port. The received byte message consists of 1060 bytes, the last 8 byte (double value) contain the “Program State”, see the “Client_interface.xlsx” excel sheet:
https://www.universal-robots.com/how-tos-and-faqs/how-to/ur-how-tos/remote-control-via-tcpip-16496/

So this double value can tell you if a program is currently running or not. Maybe this helps you. I’m not aware if there is also the possibility to find out the name of the running program.

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