Turn string data (of GPS coordinates) into a GPS tracker = frozen map. QGIS2.14/Py2.7/Win7/LAN

Question

I am currently involved in a student project which is to turn string GPS coordinates into a GPS tracker. This is my current work: First, the UDP data is shared through a LAN (No internet available) therefore, I get it with an UDP socket. The frame: (DDS coordinates)

"lat+4542000lon-00019590alt+658"

Then I translate it in DD coordinates so that I can show it on the map using this code:

plane=QgsVertexMarker(canvas)
plane.setColor(QColor("blue"))
plane.setIconSize(10)
plane.setIconType(QgsVertexMarker.ICON_CROSS)
plane.setPenWidth(3)
plane.setCenter(QgsPoint(lon,lat))
plane.show()

With 1 mark it works very well. But I receive new frame every second and I'd like to move this mark simultaneously. That's why I tried this:

#I assumed that the first point is already shown
while n<3600:
    data,addr=sock.recvfrom(1024)
    lat,lon,alt=prepare(data)
    plane.hide()
    plane.setCenter(QgsPoint(lon,lat))
    plane.show()
    n+=1

But when I run this, Qgis is frozen until the last mark appears while I expect to see one mark after another and to run QGIS normally. How can I fix it? --QGIS 2.14, Python 2.7, Windows 7 32bits, no internet--

Answer 1

Maybe your can try the try and except condition to make sure where things goes wrong. Something like this :

while n<3600 :
try :
your code
except:
whatever condition you want to test

At least if it still doesn't work it should not freeze anymore.