Hey SideFX folks, is there a way to start the HARS server in Hython? Or maybe just a way to execute an initialization Python script when starting the HARS server.

We would like to spawn a HARS server with some in-house modifications on it which are all written in Python. Since there is a "Houdini Engine SessionSync" panel available in Houdini GUI, we assume that there must be an API to perform the same operation... but we cannot find it so far.

Any clues would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi. Have the same problem.
I tried to use hou.startHoudiniEngineDebugger("hapi"). And it works fine, until you try to work with packed geometry. When doing some unpack/convert it returns no data. Did some extra tests and it's seems to be a problem with cooking time.


calving, maybe you have some solution for this?