Nicos

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NICOS is a Python based control system developed at FRM-II. The general software documentation can be found here. Although NICOS is a fully fledged control system ISIS are currently only using it as a script server.

Getting Started

How to install Nicos on Windows.

Running Nicos

How to run Nicos.

Instrument Configuration

How to set up and configure a new Nicos instrument.

Initial evaluation

An evaluation of Nicos and its suitability for integration into the IBEX project.

ISIS Proxy

(Outdated as of 06/12/17 - now using ZeroMQ integrated into latest version of NICOS)

A description of the proxy that has been written to convert NICOS protocol into something more IBEX friendly.

Script server design

The design of the Nicos script server.

Developer notes

• Testing Nicos
• Nicos commands

Repository

• Git repo is at git://trac.frm2.tum.de/home/repos/git/frm2/nicos/nicos-core.git
• Documentation

Don't try to merge their repository with ours - they have mangled email addresses in their history which github won't accept. Instead, copy-paste the entire codebase into the vendor branch of our repository, and then merge the vendor branch with our master branch.