TY  - CONF
AU  - Wegmann, P.
AU  - Faulhaber, E.
AU  - Kiefer, K.
AU  - Mannix, O.
AU  - Rossa, L.
AU  - Smith, W.
AU  - Zolliker, M.
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Götz, Andy
ED  - Venter, Johan
ED  - White, Karen
ED  - Robichon, Marie
ED  - Rowland, Vivienne
TI  - SECoP Integration for the Ophyd Hardware Abstraction Layer
J2  - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
T2  - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3  - 19
LA  - english
AB  - At the core of the Bluesky experimental control ecosystem the ophyd hardware abstraction, a consistent high-level interface layer, is extremely powerful for complex device integration. It introduces the device data model to EPICS and eases integration of alien control protocols. This paper focuses on the integration of the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) into the ophyd layer, enabling seamless incorporation of sample environment hardware into beamline experiments at photon and neutron sources. The SECoP integration was designed to have a simple interface and provide plug-and-play functionality while preserving all metadata and structural information about the controlled hardware. Leveraging the self-describing characteristics of SECoP, automatic generation and configuration of ophyd devices is facilitated upon connecting to a Sample Environment Control (SEC) node. This work builds upon a modified SECoP-client provided by the Frappy framework, intended for programming SEC nodes with a SECoP interface. This paper presents an overview of the architecture and implementation of the ophyd-SECoP integration and includes examples for better understanding. 
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 1212
EP  - 1215
KW  - hardware
KW  - interface
KW  - controls
KW  - status
KW  - EPICS
DA  - 2024/02
PY  - 2024
SN  - 2226-0358
SN  - 978-3-95450-238-7
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO10
UR  - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thmbcmo10.pdf
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
AU  - Kiefer, K.
AU  - Brandl, G.
AU  - Ekström, N.
AU  - Faulhaber, E.
AU  - Klemke, B.
AU  - Kotanski, J.
AU  - Kracht, T.
AU  - Pettersson, A.
AU  - Rossa, L.
AU  - Wegmann, P.
AU  - Zaft, A.
AU  - Zolliker, M.
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Götz, Andy
ED  - Venter, Johan
ED  - White, Karen
ED  - Robichon, Marie
ED  - Rowland, Vivienne
TI  - SECoP and SECoP@HMC - Metadata in the Sample Environment Communication Protocol
J2  - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
T2  - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3  - 19
LA  - english
AB  - The integration of sample environment (SE) equipment in x-ray and neutron experiments is a complex challenge both in the physical world and in the digital world. Dif-ferent experiment control software offer different interfac-es for the connection of SE equipment. Therefore, it is time-consuming to integrate new SE or to share SE equipment between facilities. To tackle this problem, the International Society for Sample Environment (ISSE, ) developed the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) to standardize the communication between instrument control software and SE equipment. SECoP offers, on the one hand, a generalized way to control SE equipment. On the other hand, SECoP holds the possibility to transport SE metadata in a well-defined way. In addition, SECoP provides machine readable self-description of the SE equipment which enables a fully automated integration into the instrument control soft-ware and into the processes for data storage. Using SECoP as a common standard for controlling SE equipment and generating SE metadata will save resources and intrinsi-cally give the opportunity to supply standardized and FAIR data compliant SE metadata. It will also supply a well-defined interface for user-provided SE equipment, for equipment shared by different research facilities and for industry. In this article will show how SECoP can help to provide a meaningful and complete set of metadata for SE equipment and we will present SECoP and the SECoP@HMC project supported by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 1322
EP  - 1324
KW  - controls
KW  - experiment
KW  - software
KW  - neutron
KW  - interface
DA  - 2024/02
PY  - 2024
SN  - 2226-0358
SN  - 978-3-95450-238-7
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP014
UR  - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp014.pdf
ER  -