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techui_builder

A package for building Phoebus GUIs

Techui-builder is a module for building and organising phoebus gui screens using a builder-ibek yaml description of an IOC, with a user created techui.yaml file containing a description of the screens the user wants to create.

What Where
Source https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/techui-builder
PyPI pip install techui-builder
Releases https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/techui-builder/releases

The process to use this module goes as follows (WIP):

Requirements

  1. Docker
  2. VSCode
  3. CS-Studio (Phoebus)

Installation

  1. Clone this module with the --recursive flag to pull in techui-support for the associated bob files.
  2. Open the project using VSCode.
  3. Reopen the project in a container. Make sure you are using the VSCode extension: Dev Containers by Microsoft.

Setting Up

  1. Clone the beamline ixx-services repo to the root of this project, ensuring each IOC service has been converted to the ibek format.

    git clone --recursive git@gitlab.diamond.ac.uk:controls/containers/beamline/ixx-services.git

  2. Create your handmade synoptic overview screen in Phoebus and place at ixx-services/synoptic/index.bob.

  3. Construct a techui.yaml file inside ixx-services/synoptic containing all the components from the services:

    beamline:
        location: {e.g. b23, b01-1}
        domain: {e.g. bl23b}
        desc: {beamline description}
        url: {e.g. b23-opis.diamond.ac.uk}
    
    components:
        {component name}:
            desc: {component description}
            prefix: {PV prefix}
            extras: 
                - {extra prefix 1}
                - {extra prefix 2}
    
  4. Run this command to locally generate a schema, which can be used for validation testing

    $ techui-builder schema

    Add the following at the top of the techui.yaml to validate it against a schema

    # yaml-language-server: $schema=/path/to/techui.schema.yml

    where the path can be the dev container workspace, or a released asset in the GitHub repo.

Generating the Synoptic

$ techui-builder build /path/to/synoptic/techui.yaml

This populates index.bob and individual component screens inside ixx-services/synoptic.

Generating the JsonMap

$ techui-builder generate-jsonmap /path/to/synoptic/index.bob

This populates JsonMap.json with the tree of component screens inside ixx-services/synoptic/index.bob.

Generating the Status PV database file

$ techui-builder status /path/to/synoptic/techui.yaml

This populates config/status.db with the status PVs of components inside ixx-services/synoptic/techui.yaml.

Viewing the Synoptic

In a terminal outside of the container:

$ module load phoebus
$ phoebus.sh -resource /path/to/opis/index.bob

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