Glossary

CA

EPICS Channel Access protocol

CLI

command-line interface

EPICS

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics

GUI

graphical user interface

IOC

EPICS Input/Output Controller, the EPICS server

message PV

EPICS PV that provides the text to be sent by email, additional metadata is appended to this text

OS

operating system

PV

EPICS process variable

PVA

EPICS PV Access protocol (not used here)

PvMail

Name of the Python package that provides the pvMail executable

pvMail

Name of the pvMail executable

PyDM

Python package providing Qt widgets that manage EPICS PVs

PyEpics

Python package to manage connections with PVs served by an EPICS IOC

PyQt5

Python framework for GUI and other Qt components

trigger PV

EPICS PV that signals an email is to be sent