epics-bluesky-vm

APS Training for Bluesky Data Acquisition.

Objective

Simulate a beam line using EPICS IOCs, GUIs, Bluesky and related components.

Installation

Follow these instructions to install EPICS-Bluesky-Simulator, including Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager.

About this VM

• OS: Linux Mint 20.1
• EPICS
  • base: 7.0.5
  • synApps: 6.2
  • AreaDetector: 3.10
  • MEDM: 3.1.16
  • caQtDM: 4.3.0+
• Python: Miniconda 4.9.2
• Bluesky: 2021-04-11
• Jupyter: 3.0.11

Bluesky Training Notebooks

Jupyter notebooks provide specific training for use of the Bluesky Framework for data acquisition and analysis.

• Bluesky Hello, World!
• About the Instrument Simulation
• Bluesky Command Review
• count with a scaler
• move a motor
• scan with motor and scaler
• lineup on a 1-D peak
• temperature
• write a custom measurement plan
• area detector
• analyze image data later
• analyze data extracted from another Bluesky

Start Jupyter Lab

From the VM, open a terminal window. One of these methods:

• press these keys at the same time: <Ctrl>+<Alt>+T
• click the Terminal icon in the lower command bar
• select the LM menu (in lower left corner), then Terminal

Use these commands in the terminal to start the Jupyter Lab notebook server:

cd ~/bluesky
./blueskyStarter.sh lab

The terminal console window will look similar to this view:

In a minute or less, a web browser should open with a view, such as:

Developers: (Re)Create the VM

This repository contains the instructions and resources to create a VirtualBox virtual machine image.

References