What's the best approach to deploy solar panels based on an event?

[ephraim271]

Going through
examples/scenarioDeployingPanel.py
the start time is fixed .

    profiler1.startTime = macros.sec2nano(5)  # [ns] start the deployment
    profiler1.endTime = macros.sec2nano(85)  # [ns]

How could this be triggered dynamically instead? For example, deploy panels if rates are low enough, an approach like this

        SimBase.createNewEvent("deployPanels", self.checkPanelStatusTimeStep, True,
                               ["norm(SimBase.ModuleName.AngularRatesMsg.read().AngVelBody)" < k],
                               ["modulename.porfiler1.startTime = currentSimTime"
                                ])

is this the proper way to do this? Alternatively is there a reason why "start deploy" isn't an input message option which subscribes to something else which triggers panel deploy start?

[schaubh]

Basilisk simulationBaseClass does have an event handler. See http://hanspeterschaub.info/basilisk/examples/BskSim/scenarios/scenario_AddRWFault.html for some examples on how to set events to emulate RW faults. You can add your own python code to make very general checks, and executions of python code if the checks pass.