Authors: Jan Kotanski

NXS MacroGUI is taurus gui Configuration for Component Selector

Install the dependencies:

Download the latest version of NeXuS Configuration Server from

Extract the sources and run

$ python3 setup.py install

Debian Trixie, Bookworm, Bullseye and Ubuntu Questing, Noble, Jammy packages can be found in the HDRI repository.

To install the debian packages, add the PGP repository key

$ sudo su
$ curl -s http://repos.pni-hdri.de/debian_repo.pub.gpg | gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg --import
$ chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg

and then download the corresponding source list

$ cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ wget http://repos.pni-hdri.de/trixie-pni-hdri.sources

Finally,

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python3-nxsrecselector nxselector nxstaurusgui

To instal other NexDaTaS packages

$ apt-get install python-nxswriter nxsconfigtool nxstools python-nxsconfigserver nxsconfigserver-db

and

$ apt-get install python3-sardana-nxsrecorder

for NeXus recorder.

To install it from pip you need also to install pyqt5, e.g.

$ python3 -m venv myvenv
$ . myvenv/bin/activate

$ pip install pyqt5

$ pip install sardana-nxsrecorder

Moreover it is also good to install

$ pip install pytango
$ pip install sardana
$ pip install nxswriter
$ pip install nxsrecselector
$ pip install nxsconfigserver
$ pip install nxstools
$ pip install pymysqldb

If sardana is not yet set up run

$ Pool

• enter a new instance name
• create the new instance

Then wait a while until Pool is started and in a new terminal run

$ MacroServer

• enter a new instance name
• create the new instance
• connect pool

Next, run Astor and change start-up levels: for Pool to 2, for MacroServer to 3 and restart servers.

Alternatively, terminate Pool and MacroServer in the terminals and run

$ nxsetup start Pool -l2

wait until Pool is started and run

$ nxsetup start MacroServer -l3

Additionally, one can create dummy devices by running sar_demo in

$ spock

To set up NeXus Servers run

$ nxsetup set

or

$ nxsetup set NXSDataWriter
$ nxsetup set NXSConfigServer
$ nxsetup set NXSRecSelector

for specific servers.

If the RecoderPath property of MacroServer is not set one can do it by

$ nxsetup add-recorder-path  /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sardananxsrecorder

where the path should point the sardananxsrecorder package.