Roadmap#

For a closer look at the ongoing work: I24ssx board

Ongoing list of TODOs (Updated 04/2025)#

Bluesky:

  1. Set up blueapi and run mx-bluesky on the beamline kubernetes cluster. I24 should be due to get one in shutdown 4 2024.

  2. Improve/fix the issues with the PMAC ProgramRunner: it should monitor the counter PV as well as the status PV.

  3. Use callbacks for file IO, eg. to write parameter and map files, nexus writer and ispyb deposition.

    • Improve nexgen-server use

  4. Convert detector set up to use bluesky plans and ophyd_async devices.

    • Eiger device in dodal needs to be converted to ophyd_async and updated to work with different Eigers on several beamlines. This work is dependent on other work out of the scope of this project, see Dodal#700 and linked issues.

    • Update JF code for serial, move devices into dodal and merge it.

    • Investigate using the existing Pilatus in ophyd_async which writes HDF5 instead of CBFs, but we may want to make a CBF-writing Pilatus. However, the Pilatus detector is due to be removed soon.

  5. Start integrating Panda, at least for fixed-target collections.

  6. Implementation of serial tools to be used at XFELS.

    • Reinstate removed code from sacla and move it to bluesky.

    • Add any plans/devices that might be needed for other locations.

  7. Reinstate full mapping code using bluesky.

React UI:

  1. Prepare generic react components to match the features in the edms.

    • Components for things currently managed by general purpose PVs (eg. mapping, pump probe).

    • Set up collection parameters

    • Move hardware: eg. detector stage

    • Monitor beamline state

  2. Move the moveonclick to the wbe UI

    • Component for the OAV viewer on the UI.

    • Components to set the zoom and move the backlight using bluesky plans.

    • Look into drawing the crosshair in epics.

    • Refactor moveonclick code.

Rough Roadmap#

Work Ongoing

Rough Timeline

Completed

PMAC ProgramRunner updates/fixes

Apr. 24

Update/improve coordinate system maker on the PMAC

Apr. /May 25

Convert the current detector set up code to bluesky plans using the device

Dependent on FastCS Eiger issues being completed

Set up callback for nexus writing

Dec. 24

Set up callback for ispyb deposition

Dec. 24

Prepare first React components to switch from EDM to a web GUI

Dec. 24 / Jan. 25

Move the OAV viewer to a web GUI

May / Jun. 25

Deploy a first basic version of the web UI

May 25

Fully test extruder collections

Nov. 24

Fix permissions and allow for user collections

Dec. 24 / Jan. 25

Refactor logger

Nov. 24

Improve current alignment - use multiple zooms (moveonclick)

Nov. 24

Set up a PV backend, eg. pvws, for web GUI on the beamline.

Jan. 25

Experiment types required#

Details of zebra settings for each type: https://confluence.diamond.ac.uk/display/MXTech/Zebra+settings+I24

Note that most of the set up for the fixed target is actually done internally by the PMAC, via sending PMAC strings.

Old roadmap for reference

Work Ongoing

Rough Timeline

Completed

Document how to set up the current visit, deploy the edm screens and run a simple collection

Ongoing

Chip collections using bluesky

Jan./Feb. 24

Extruder collections using bluesky

Feb. 24

Create an Ophyd device for the Pilatus detector and use it, along with the Eiger device, to collect data

Jan. 24

Start using Ophyd devices for the set up tasks - eg. zebra

15th Dec. 23

Use a plan to find the fiducials

15th Dec. 23

Create an Ophyd device for for the pmac and use it to move the chip stages

1st Dec. 23

Set up a first bluesky plan to move the detector stage and set up the detector in use

15th Nov. 23

Come up with a first parameter model

1st Dec 23

Start sending logs to graylog

Nov. 23

Permissions issues - run as a service

Dec. 23

Deploy a first version of mx-bluesky with the current iteration - tested on the beamline - of the serial tools. Set up a module load that they can use it for ssx data collections.

Nov. 23

Generic deployment for edm screens

Summer 23

Tidy up original code and add some tests

Summer 23