Actors are instanciated commands, i.e. an actor is an association of a module and a command from this module that can be called from a process. Additionnally, one can add attributes to an actor to refine its execution. Some attributes are generic (compatible with all actors), but some may be command specific.

Actors are declared in the "actors" section of the experiment file. An actor is defined as a module, a command from this module and optional attributes.

[actors]
  set_key = ["arduino", "set_key"]
  encrypt = ["arduino", "fast", "post_tempo=100ms"]

In the above example, two actors are defined for the same arduino module. The second actor define an attribute, here a temporisation after the command (to throttle the encryption speed). Several attributes may be defined, simply separate them by a comma ','. Example:

  encrypt = ["arduino", "fast", "post_tempo=100ms", "pre_tempo=20ms"]