More Information#

Functionally based on pvMail UNIX shell script written in 1999.

Summary#

Watches an EPICS PV and sends email when it changes from 0 to 1. PV value can be either integer or float.

Note

When “running”, wait for trigger PV to go from 0 to 1. When that happens, fetch mail message from message PV. Then, send that message out to each of the email addresses. The message content is prioritized for view on a small-screen device such as a pager or a PDA or smartphone.

version control repository#

The PvMail project is hosted on GitHub (BCDA-APS/pvMail). You may check out the entire project source code github repository:

git clone  https://github.com/BCDA-APS/pvMail

GitHub has additional advice for alternative methods.

Documentation#

Documentation for the PvMail project, maintained using Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org), is available from:

https://BCDA-APS.github.io/pvMail

Items for future releases#

see:: BCDA-APS/pvMail#issues

Authors#

author:: Kurt Goetze (original version)
author:: Pete Jemian (this version)
organization:: BCDA, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory

Requirements#

Requires these Python packages and an EPICS system with at least two process variables (PVs) where the “Trigger PV” toggles between values of 0 and 1 and the “SendMessage PV” contains a string to send as part of the email message.