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Usage Patterns
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Usage Patterns

Practical flow patterns for consumer, producer, and bidirectional ION clients.

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Usage Patterns

Consumer Pattern

  • Connect
  • Send describe
  • Receive ready
  • Send start
  • Read type 0x02 audio frames
  • Send stop

Producer Pattern

  • Connect
  • Send describe
  • Receive ready
  • Send start
  • Send type 0x02 audio frames
  • Send stop

Bidirectional Pattern

When implementing ASR + TTS style interactions, keep strict state transitions around start and stop, and validate you only exchange PCM after ready.

Operational Notes

  • Reject unsupported protocol versions
  • Ignore unknown events for compatibility
  • Apply backpressure handling at transport layer