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Simons Observatory specific OCS agents.
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SynAccess agent should provide a way to assign meaningful labels to outlets #625

Closed mhasself closed 4 months ago

mhasself commented 5 months ago

In the ibootbars, the devices themselves can store an outlet name (e.g. LS330). But synaccess does not seem to have that. So in ocs-web, or a client, all you know about the outlet that you're about to toggle is its index... 1,2,3... and you need to look up the outlet significance elsewhere.

It would provide a more informative interface to the hardware if the agent args could be used to configure labels for each outlet; e.g.

--label outlet2 LS330 --label outlet3 LS219

Or something more ocs-ey.