Name: Tango Controls Workshop @ ICALEPCS 2023 South Africa
Start: 2023-10-07T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-07T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Century City Convention Centre

Tango Controls Workshop @ ICALEPCS 2023 South Africa

Saturday, October 7, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Monday, October 2, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023
Saturday, October 7, 2023
9:00 AM Tango Controls Basics - Devon Petrie Thomas Juerges (SKAO)
Tango Controls Basics
- Devon Petrie
- Thomas Juerges (SKAO)
9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Room: 11
9:35 AM Practical Session Using Rasberry PI - Thomas Juerges (SKAO) Devon Petrie
Practical Session Using Rasberry PI
- Thomas Juerges (SKAO)
- Devon Petrie
9:35 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: 11
9:55 AM Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
9:55 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 11
10:15 AM Managing device servers - Sergi Rubio Manrique (ALBA Synchotron)
Managing device servers
- Sergi Rubio Manrique (ALBA Synchotron)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 11 Demo on how to create/configure/start/stop device servers from console without Jive/Astor so one can automate the creation and configuration of the Control System.
10:45 AM Developing a Tango device in a k8s context - Matteo Di Carlo (INAF)
Developing a Tango device in a k8s context
- Matteo Di Carlo (INAF)
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 11 This highlights how k8s is used in the ska development to deploy tango devices. Depending on how much time we have this session will also explore snippets from ska-tango-examples for a quick start on using tango and a demo on usage of the ska-tango-operator.
11:30 AM HDB++ Installation and configuration - Damien Lacoste Lorenzo Pivetta (ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste)
HDB++ Installation and configuration
- Damien Lacoste
- Lorenzo Pivetta (ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 11
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 11
1:30 PM Synoptic - Vincent Hardion (MAX IV Laboratory)
Synoptic
- Vincent Hardion (MAX IV Laboratory)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 11
2:00 PM Sardana Macros - Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA)
Sardana Macros
- Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 11 Basic examples with standard clients: Spock, Macro Executor, and Macro Button
2:30 PM Taranta - Canzari Matteo (INAF)
Taranta
- Canzari Matteo (INAF)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 11 Taranta is a web client for creating web dashboards for monitoring and controlling Tango devices.
3:00 PM Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 11
3:30 PM Taurus Tutorial - Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA)
Taurus Tutorial
- Zbigniew Reszela (ALBA)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 11 Basic tools (Taurus Form and Taurus Trend) Taurus GUI Program a GUI with Qt Designer Program a GUI by code
4:30 PM Open Discussion
Open Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 11 Q & A Hack Discussions