Basic tools to do things with VOEvents. (e.g. pick out certain events, then send email alerts or new VOEvents, etc.)

From the command line:

git clone git@github.com:timstaley/pysovo.git
cd pysovo
pip install .

If you want to use the email alert facility, you should run:

>$ python input_email_settings.py

This will prompt you for username, password, etc. You can mostly accept default settings if using a gmail login. Note that the password input will not be echoed to the terminal if running from a regular python interpreter, but it seems that ipython insists on displaying it for you. The details are saved under $HOME/.vo_alerts/email_acc and the file permissions are set so that only you have read access. Your password will also be weakly obfuscated using base64 encoding.

There are currently a few unit tests, try nosetests -svx from the pysovo package folder.

Also see the integration_tests folder - the easiest way to get these to run prior to installation is to use ipython from the root project folder, e.g. :

ipython integration_tests/sendmail_test.py

• Implement email reading, for 2 way communication with AMI.