Roadmap#
For a closer look at the ongoing work: I24ssx board
Ongoing list of things needed:
Solution for enabling users to run mx-bluesky instead of old scripts: blocked by permission issues. Preferred solution would be run on beamline kubernetes cluster - in the meantime also loooking into procserv as a possibility. (Fixing this should also allow us to stop using the Pilatus to make directories during an Eiger collection.) Temporary workaround in place for beamline staff, who should be starting to run this for testing/in house beamtimes.
Convert detector set up to use bluesky plans and ophyd_async devices. Investigate using the existing Pilatus in ophyd_async which writes HDF5 instead of CBFs (may want to make a CBF-writing Pilatus).
Start looking into moving away from edm screens towards a web-based GUI.
Improve alignment of chip: get it to work correctly for multiple zooms.
(TBC…)
Work Ongoing |
Rough Timeline |
Completed |
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Document how to set up the current visit, deploy the edm screens and run a simple collection |
Ongoing |
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Chip collections using bluesky |
Jan./Feb. 24 |
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Extruder collections using bluesky |
Feb. 24 |
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Create an Ophyd device for the Pilatus detector and use it, along with the Eiger device, to collect data |
Jan. 24 |
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Start using Ophyd devices for the set up tasks - eg. zebra |
15th Dec. 23 |
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Use a plan to find the fiducials |
15th Dec. 23 |
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Create an Ophyd device for for the pmac and use it to move the chip stages |
1st Dec. 23 |
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Set up a first bluesky plan to move the detector stage and set up the detector in use |
15th Nov. 23 |
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Come up with a first parameter model |
1st Dec 23 |
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Start sending logs to graylog |
Nov. 23 |
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Permissions issues - run as a service |
Dec. 23 |
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Deploy a first version of mx-bluesky
with the current iteration - tested
on the beamline - of the serial
tools. Set up a |
Nov. 23 |
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Generic deployment for edm screens |
Summer 23 |
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Tidy up original code and add some tests |
Summer 23 |
Experiment types required#
Extruder
Standard
Pump probe
Fixed target (probably about 80-85% of serial on I24)
Standard chip collection – option for multiple exposures in each spot
Pump probe - see for short description https://confluence.diamond.ac.uk/display/MXTech/Dynamics+and+fixed+targets
Short delays
Excite and visit again
Long delays with fs opening/closing
(Future) Fixed target with rotation at each “window” (Preliminary work done by beamline staff on the PMAC program https://confluence.diamond.ac.uk/display/MXTech/Grids+with+rotations)
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 by the PMAC via PMAC strings.