How to bodge an immediate observation in for testing purposes

During development, I wanted a fake pass in my scheduler for an LRPT satellite. I grabbed the associated observation object from the network and then modified the start and end time. It's not perfect, but it works well enough to check for immediate gotchas.

You need to modify satnogs-client's tasks.py:

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def status_listener():
    LOGGER.info('Starting scheduler...')
    SCHEDULER.start()
    SCHEDULER.remove_all_jobs()
    interval = settings.SATNOGS_NETWORK_API_QUERY_INTERVAL
    SCHEDULER.add_job(get_jobs, 'interval', minutes=interval)
    msg = 'Registering `get_jobs` periodic task ({0} min. interval)'.format(interval)
    LOGGER.info(msg)
    interval = settings.SATNOGS_NETWORK_API_POST_INTERVAL
    msg = 'Registering `post_data` periodic task ({0} min. interval)'.format(interval)
    LOGGER.info(msg)
    SCHEDULER.add_job(post_data, 'interval', minutes=interval)

    # ADD THIS BODGE #
    obj = {'id': 2170286, 'start': '2020-05-07T18:32:06Z', 'end': '2020-05-07T18:42:06Z', 'ground_station': 1507, 'tle0': 'METEOR-M 2', 'tle1': '1 40069U 14037A   20128.41275588 -.00000023  00000-0  89535-5 0  9998', 'tle2': '2 40069  98.5069 167.4916 0006638  49.0804 311.0953 14.20672256302383', 'frequency': 137100000, 'mode': 'LRPT', 'transmitter': 'CojkGDaq3u42nRdLdfczng', 'baud': 80000.0}
    obj['start'] = (datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=30)).isoformat(timespec='seconds')
    obj['end'] = (datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=120)).isoformat(timespec='seconds')
    start = parser.parse(obj['start'])
    job_id = str(obj['id'])
    kwargs = {'obj': obj}
    SCHEDULER.add_job(spawn_observer,
                        'date',
                        run_date=start,
                        id='{0}'.format(job_id),
                        kwargs=kwargs,
                        replace_existing=True)
    # END BODGE #

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