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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif";color:#1F497D'>//snip//</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'>My solution is much better/simpler - delay the end of the script! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'>I've been monitoring it for a few days and haven't seen a single error since. I might try to avoid the problem by rearranging the script but the brute force fix is to simply add a sleep to the end of silence.py, so that it now looks like this;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'># Signal comflagging has finished<br>rec.commflagged = 1<br>rec.update()<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'>import time</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'>time.sleep(1)</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'>if __name__ == '__main__':<br> main()<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif"'>Let me know if it works for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Mark] </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"DejaVu Sans","serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Roger for the further response – I will make the changes indicated and watch for reoccurrences.</span><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p></div></body></html>