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Any plans on jumping on this one @arokem ? If not I could try to see if I can make a dent in it this weekend. Any pointers on where I should get started?

Based on the way that I understand that the transport is currently handled through ZeroMQ, we would need some kind of MATLAB script, more or less equivalent to matlabserver.m that would accept messages in a loop. I see nothing wrong with requiring the user to manually execute this script before they connect pymatbridge. They are allowing the thing complete control over their matlab session, after all. Then, the user could simply Ctrl-C in their Matlab window to regain control at any point. Does this sound like the interface you had in mind @auxiliary ? Note that, as far as I can tell from scanning the code base quickly, there does not seem to be a way in the current framework to simultaneously be sending commands to MATLAB with ZeroMQ while typing separate commands into Matlab (for the same reason that you can't use the terminal interface after starting matlab with -nodesktop and then typing `desktop).

No plans to jump on this (sorry - too busy with a host of other things), so feel free to look into it. I think that you could separate up the operations that happen under start, to not start up the server. Around here: https://github.com/arokem/python-matlab-bridge/blob/master/pymatbridge/pymatbridge.py#L202. If you do that, you might be able to separately fire up matlab and connect to it.

@brunobeltran Sorry for my late response on this. As far as I remember, I ended up doing something like what @arokem suggested and changed the start function and added a flag and some parameters.

This way we could send in an address and start would bind to the address and act as a server. Or in some cases the other way round, as a client depending on the use case. This might make it a little tricky because it would depend on the use case. For example in my case I needed a matlab session to initiate a connection to python.
The project I was working on kinda drifted into something completely different but hopefully I might find the time and be able to clean that part a little and make a pull request.

@auxiliary I have an open pull request that does (probably) the same thing already, just FYI.

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