ooEpicsPy

ooEpicsPy is a Python version of ooEpics (https://github.com/aaqiao/ooEpics) aiming at developing soft IOCs. Base classes are provided to skeleton EPICS soft IOCs, mainly or middle-layer application servers. ooEpicsPy provides the following features:

• EPICS database can be created by creating objects of LocalPVs in the user code.
• Basic Channel Access functions (e.g. caget, caput, camonitor, w/o callbacks …) are wrapped by the RemotePV class based on the PyEpics module.
• Provides base classes to implement finite state machines.
• Provides an active Application class to execute user command driven jobs.
• Provides an example soft IOC code in the folder example.

Dependencies

ooEpicsPy depends on the following non-standard Python modules:

• PyEpics: https://pyepics.github.io/pyepics/

Installation

The ooEpicsPy software should be installed to your Python environment. Follow the steps below:

• Clone this repository to your working folder.
• Check out the tag you want to install, or directly install the head (may contain debug code).
• In the top folder where the setup.py is stored, execute the command below to make the installation.

  pip install .
  

Disclaimer (see the LICENSE file)

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