[Xal-users] Interrupting poll

[Kevin S. <Kev...@th...>]

I am using the xal functions through the pyX10 interface and I am having
trouble implementing a rather simple scenario.  I implement a poll in a
while loop to track all traffic on a CM11 as follows:

c = xal.x10_controller_open(xal.X10_CONTROLLER_CM11)
x = xal.x10_event_t()
while xal.x10_poll(c, x, None):
   <<Do operations here.>>

This works great.  However, I have a cron job that invokes X10 commands such
as xal.x10_on(), xal.x10_off(), etc.  The problem is that I don't know how
to interrupt the above while loop to allow me to send these commands.  The
xal.x10_on() command just hangs.  How can I get around this?

Kevin Smith
Kev...@th...