Hello,every one.(I come from a non-English speaking country.So I hope you can understand my English)
I’m a novice of TANGO.And I have installed TANGO on Ubuntu.
I followed these steps from Official website.
To use TANGO Controls the basic steps are:
1.Download TANGO Controls and install it
2.The easiest is to install it from a binary package either for Linux Debian based system (e.g. Ubuntu or Debian) or Windows.
3.Develop a device server for your hardware/ software or re-use one of the existing device servers on SourceForge or elsewhere
4.Declare your device e.g. my/device/1, in the TANGO database, and start the device server on the computer which can access the hardware / software
5.Start Jive on the same or a different computer and to your device. Right click on the device icon and start the generic monitor panel - atkmoni
But I encountered some difficulties in the 4th step.I even do not know where to start.
So how to declare my device in the tango-database?(Ubuntu)
You can use jive to declare your device server
In jive, click on the edit menu, then “create server”
In the pop up window you will have to give the following information:
name of your server/the name of the instance you want to create e.g. MyServer/MyInstance
the name of the class instanciated by the server e.g. “MyClass”
the name of the device you want to export. “Tuo/first/device”
Note that the name of the server is the name of the executable, while the name of the class is the name of the class you instanciated in your server. In simple servers these 2 names are identical. But one single server can instanciate several different classes.
I hope it helps
You can also use the “Server Wizard” in “Tools” menu.
First, it will ask for the Server Name(MyServer) and the instance name(MyInstance).
Then, it will ask you to start your device server. So in a command/terminal, launch MyServer MyInstance
Click on next.
Now you can select which class you want a device from.
Choose it and click on declare device.
You will be asked for a device name, which is composed by 3 fields separated by ‘/’.
Depending on your device code, you will be able to enter values for the device properties.
Click on finish and that’s it.
Jean-Michel way is technically the same thing as when you use the wizard. I just find that this wizard is very easy to use.
[quote=“wTuo”]Hello,every one.(I come from a non-English speaking country.So I hope you can understand my English)
I’m a novice of TANGO.And I have installed TANGO on Ubuntu.
I followed these steps from Official website.
To use TANGO Controls the basic steps are:
1.Download TANGO Controls and install it
2.The easiest is to install it from a binary package either for Linux Debian based system (e.g. Ubuntu or Debian) or Windows.
3.Develop a device server for your hardware/ software or re-use one of the existing device servers on SourceForge or elsewhere
4.Declare your device e.g. my/device/1, in the TANGO database, and start the device server on the computer which can access the hardware / software
5.Start Jive on the same or a different computer and to your device. Right click on the device icon and start the generic monitor panel - atkmoni
But I encountered some difficulties in the 4th step.I even do not know where to start.
So how to declare my device in the tango-database?(Ubuntu)
I am also attaching a document with this post which may help you in creating device servers. The examples are implemented on Java and it may help you with the basics of Tango Control System.
There are updates released after this documentation, so it may not be the same with the current version but you may get some good idea from it.
You can use jive to declare your device server
In jive, click on the edit menu, then “create server”
In the pop up window you will have to give the following information:
name of your server/the name of the instance you want to create e.g. MyServer/MyInstance
the name of the class instanciated by the server e.g. “MyClass”
the name of the device you want to export. “Tuo/first/device”
Note that the name of the server is the name of the executable, while the name of the class is the name of the class you instanciated in your server. In simple servers these 2 names are identical. But one single server can instanciate several different classes.
I hope it helps
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Hi:-D,thanks for your enthusiastic response.But I don’t quite understand the concept of class.What is class and what does it do?
[quote=“Po!”][quote=“wTuo”]Hello,every one.(I come from a non-English speaking country.So I hope you can understand my English)
I’m a novice of TANGO.And I have installed TANGO on Ubuntu.
I followed these steps from Official website.
To use TANGO Controls the basic steps are:
1.Download TANGO Controls and install it
2.The easiest is to install it from a binary package either for Linux Debian based system (e.g. Ubuntu or Debian) or Windows.
3.Develop a device server for your hardware/ software or re-use one of the existing device servers on SourceForge or elsewhere
4.Declare your device e.g. my/device/1, in the TANGO database, and start the device server on the computer which can access the hardware / software
5.Start Jive on the same or a different computer and to your device. Right click on the device icon and start the generic monitor panel - atkmoni
But I encountered some difficulties in the 4th step.I even do not know where to start.
So how to declare my device in the tango-database?(Ubuntu)
I am also attaching a document with this post which may help you in creating device servers. The examples are implemented on Java and it may help you with the basics of Tango Control System.
There are updates released after this documentation, so it may not be the same with the current version but you may get some good idea from it.
Hope it helps.
Kind regards,
Jyotin[/quote]
Thanks for your response and attach! I think it will help me a lot!
There is a small step-by-step tutorial on how to define a Tango server via jive here.
Hope it will be helpful. Just ignore the TomCat related stuff.
Regards
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I have followed your tutorial.But I have some questions.
step 5:start TomCat what is TomCat in your tutorial?(sorry;-),I’m a novice.I think I may miss something if I ignore it.)
Is your device test/json/0 a hardware? if I don’t have a device at present,Can I create a virtual device on my PC(So that I can do some follow-up learning)?
Tomcat is the Apache web server (http://tomcat.apache.org/). If you don’t know what it is you can use the internet to find out. If you had read Igor’s answer you would have seen he said ignore the bit about tomcat! Have you read any of the Tango documentation? Followed any of the Tango tutorials on the web? If not you will waste a lot of your and our time asking questions which are already answered in the documentation. You MUST read before you leap.
You need a Tango device server. You need to write one Tango device server either using Pogo or by hand (Python is the easiest way to write a device server). Alternatively you can use the TangoTest one which is part of the distribution.
You have multiple examples of device servers on the TANGO virtual machine. Have you downloaded the virtual machine and played with it? It contains a fully configured TANGO installation.
What do you want to use TANGO for i.e. what problem do you try to solve?
Tomcat is the Apache web server (http://tomcat.apache.org/). If you don’t know what it is you can use the internet to find out. If you had read Igor’s answer you would have seen he said ignore the bit about tomcat! Have you read any of the Tango documentation? Followed any of the Tango tutorials on the web? If not you will waste a lot of your and our time asking questions which are already answered in the documentation. You MUST read before you leap.
You need a Tango device server. You need to write one Tango device server either using Pogo or by hand (Python is the easiest way to write a device server). Alternatively you can use the TangoTest one which is part of the distribution.
You have multiple examples of device servers on the TANGO virtual machine. Have you downloaded the virtual machine and played with it? It contains a fully configured TANGO installation.
What do you want to use TANGO for i.e. what problem do you try to solve?
Andy[/quote]
I’m sorry about that.
Actually,my supervisor got a project about SKA telescope recently.He just asked me to learn about How to use TANGO.So I don’t know I will use TANGO for what.T_T
I have read the document The TANGO Control System Manual.The doc is about programming.But it isn’t helpful for me.I just want to learn something abut how to use TANGO.
OK I understand better now. TANGO is a toolkit for programmer’s so it will be difficult for you to learn if you are not a programmer. I suggest you download the virtual machine and follow the tutorial in the documentation:
[quote=“Andy”]OK I understand better now. TANGO is a toolkit for programmer’s so it will be difficult for you to learn if you are not a programmer. I suggest you download the virtual machine and follow the tutorial in the documentation:
Andy[/quote]
Thanks,Andy.I’ve download the Tango9_VM.pdf.I am referring to the tutorial,but I can’t find TANGO BOX V9.0 in this page（I just find a download link of v3.0）.
[i]TANGO Control System - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
[quote=“wTuo”][quote=“Andy”]OK I understand better now. TANGO is a toolkit for programmer’s so it will be difficult for you to learn if you are not a programmer. I suggest you download the virtual machine and follow the tutorial in the documentation:
Andy[/quote]
Thanks,Andy.I’ve download the Tango9_VM.pdf.I am referring to the tutorial,but I can’t find TANGO BOX V9.0 in this page（I just find a download link of v3.0）.
[i]TANGO Control System - Browse Files at SourceForge.net
