Players and recorders (tape)
[Runtime modules]

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Detailed Description

Tape players and recorders are used to manage the boundary conditions and record properties of objects during simulation.

There are two kinds of players and two kinds of recorders:

• player is used to play a recording of a single value to property of an object
• shaper is used to play a periodic scaled shape to a property of groups of objects
• recorder is used to collect a recording of one of more properties of an object
• collector is used to collect an aggregation of a property from a group of objects

Modules
	Collectors
	Tape collectors are different from recorders in that they aggregate multiple object properties into a single value.
	Recorders
	Tape recorders use the following additional properties format specifies whether to use raw timestamp instead of date-time format interval specifies the sampling interval to use (0 means every pass, -1 means only transients) limit specifies the maximum length limit for the number of samples taken trigger specifies a trigger condition on a property to start recording the condition is specified in the format property comparison value The loop property is not available in recording.
	Players
	Tape players use the following properties file specifies the source of the data.
	Shapers
	Shapers produce boundary conditions based on a shape, either by playing a scaled result that conforms to the defined shape, or producing a series of pulse-width modulated events of a set amplitude that aggregate over time to the given shape.
	File-based tapes
	Tape Files read or write comma-separated values in a flat file on the local computer.
	Memory Tapes
	The Memory tape type was originally created to provide a work buffer for Matlab in memory space that GridLAB-D could access.
	ODBC Tapes
	ODBC-type tapes work on databases.