Re: [Cs-studio-core] [EXTERNAL] Question consultation

[Kasemir, K. <kas...@or...>]

> I want to know if CS-Studio or Phoebus can be used as monitoring interface for Tango

Phoebus will out of the box support the PV types listed in the online help or
https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/phoebus/blob/master/core/pv/doc/index.rst

Among common network protocols, that  includes Channel Access, PV Access and MQTT.
The first two for actual use, the latter more as a demo implementation for your Raspberry Pi toy setup at home.

We use Java SPI to allow adding PV providers, see https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/phoebus/blob/master/core/pv/src/main/java/org/phoebus/pv/PVFactory.java and https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/phoebus/blob/master/core/pv/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.phoebus.pv.PVFactory

This gives you two options:

  1.  Run some gateway from Tango's network protocol to CA or PVA
  2.  Add a "PVFactory" that directly supports Tango's protocol

The older Eclipse-based version of CS-Studio is similar but uses Eclipse "plugins" instead of SPI. At this time, though, I would not bother adding a new network protocol to the legacy implementation and instead go with the Phoebus-based CS-Studio.

-Kay