xbot2_cli

xbot2_cli is a command-line interface (CLI) application designed to provide an easy way to interact with the XBot framework.

Setup

Prerequisites

# install system dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv

# create a virtualenv for this package (mandatory on Python >= 3.12)
cd xbot2_cli
python3 -m venv venv/xbot2_cli
source venv/xbot2_cli/bin/activate

Installing the package

To install xbot2_cli, you can use pip. Make sure you have sourced your virtualenv, then run:

pip install -e .

This will install the package along with its dependencies.

Tab completion is supported via running the following line in your shell.

echo eval \"\$(register-python-argcomplete xbot2)\" >> ~/.bashrc

Usage

Make sure you sourced the virtualenv; you can run the CLI by executing the following command in your terminal:

xbot2

You can view the available commands and options by using the --help flag:

xbot2 --help

Examples

# list available plugins, optionally with their current status
xbot2 plugin list 
xbot2 plugin list --status

# start a plugin
xbot2 plugin switch homing start

# set filters cutoff freq
xbot2 filter set 10.0

# disable filter
xbot2 filter enable false

# watch execution statustics (refreshed every half second)
xbot2 watch stats -n 0.5

# clear the internal cache (this is used to avoid querying xbot2 for params and plugins on each TAB press)
xbot2 clear