@sharknaro (and share with others using the old pause-stirring plugin at DTU):
In version 24.12.5, the is now a builtin way to pause stirring during readings. This should be a more reliable, and less noisy (both in the logs sense, and the readings sense) than the previous plugin I posted here.
First, I would delete that existing plugin from your ~/.pioreactor/plugins folder. (Pro tip: you can SSH into the leader and run pios rm ~/.pioreactor/plugins/that_plugin_name.py to delete it off all the workers.
Second: update to version 24.12.5. See changelog here New Pioreactor release: 24.12.5.
Finally, change your [stirring.config] to include:
post_delay_duration=0.25
pre_delay_duration=2.0
# if turning enable_dodging_od on, we recommend decreasing samples_per_second
enable_dodging_od=True