Realtime control

A running Brian simulation can be controlled, for example using an IPython shell. This can work either on a single computer, or over IP from another computer. The process running the simulation calls something like:

server = RemoteControlServer()

and the IPython shell calls:

client = RemoteControlClient()

The shell can now execute and evaluate in the server process via:

spikes = client.evaluate('M.spikes')
i, t = zip(*spikes)
plot(t, i, '.')
client.stop()

Parameters can be changed as the simulation runs. For more details, see the reference documentation for RemoteControlServer and RemoteControlClient.