It is not hard to add new instruments in TANGO The code base

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It is not hard to add new instruments in TANGO The code base is not quite the state of the art but it is working properly from the user point of view

altavir · Answer

< bjonnh> Also since our lab will be doing some device server writing work for IAXO we can also do some device tweaking work for you It is my dream to be able to get some money for science by providing services like that since we are in Russia it is quite cheap by international standards But we are also ready to do something like that free of charge in the name of academic cooperation

bjonnh · Answer

Yeah I looked into tango a bit yesterday not sure it fits what I need here

bjonnh · Answer

I like the idea it just seems to be a different realm than what I am trying to achieve A single protocol for all of these would be really nice though

bjonnh · Answer

does TANGO has to use CORBA

altavir · Answer

It is currently being rewritten in zmq My idea is to separate device API So we could use lightweight device servers without tango or any other systems

bjonnh · Answer

yeah that would be great

bjonnh · Answer

both aspects

bjonnh · Answer

that s what I tried to do with my system

bjonnh · Answer

separate the communication part the device features etc

bjonnh · Answer

pretty overkill for just one instrument but if I ever want to add things I can just decide to communicate through an Ethernet serial adapter instead of direct serial

bjonnh · Answer

etc

altavir · Answer

That one I ve done I ve even abastracted away the whole communication so I can easily change from TCP to RS 232 or USB

altavir · Answer

I can port and publish my existing solutions if there is a request for them so I am collecting opinions

bjonnh · Answer

I wonder how all those things would work together

bjonnh · Answer

I m sure everybody is full of opinions on how these things should be done

altavir · Answer

Port API <https bitbucket org Altavir dataforge src dev dataforge control src main kotlin hep dataforge control ports Port kt>

altavir · Answer

In fact I was working separately and ended up with something very close to TANGO concept So I am pretty sure that there is some kind of consesus about how it should look

bjonnh · Answer

I ll try to have another look at tango then

altavir · Answer

I do not think that API should be based on Tango On the contrary I think we should create API and then add tango connection on top of it

bjonnh · Answer

are you using this dataforge on real things

altavir · Answer

Yep Old version is used in the whole Troitsk nu mass daq and analysis New prototype is in progress but we already using parts of it in a few projects A lot of work ahead still

bjonnh · Answer

Looking a bit deeper into dataforge Its scope is really large Things such as fitting plotting

altavir · Answer

< bjonnh> Yep initially it was even larger framework but I am gradually rewriting parts of it in multiplatform leaving the things that could be done by external libraries and improving modularization

altavir · Answer

I was an still running the whole cycle data acquisition storage and analysis on Troitsk nu mass on it but it became too complicated to be easily maintained

altavir · Answer

New version is here <https github com mipt npm dataforge core tree dev>