Beamline Control

All beamline components and detectors are controlled using EPICS and areaDetector. Each device can be configure and controlled through a graphic user interface (GUI) or through a python script using PyEpics.

beamline

To start the main 2-BM beamline control user interface:

[user2bmb@arcturus,42,~]$ start_epics
2bma_beamline 2bmb_beamline

tomography

To start the main tomography control screens for 2-BM-A or 2-BM-B for scanning or streaming data collection select in the main beamline control screens the corresponding screen for user, admin, tomoscan, tomoscan 2-BM:

tomo_00

User interface:

tomo_01

Admin interface:

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Main tomography control screen

tomo_02

To start tomoScanStream:

tomo_03

Main tomoScanStream control screen

tomo_02

Main tomoStream control screen to control the real time reconstruction:

tomo_02

If some of the above screen contains whirte fields, it means that the corresponding EPICS IOC is not running. To check/start/stop any IOC associated with tomograhy use the ioc_start user interface:

tomo_02