How-To Examples

• How-To: Scan Area Detector with Motor(s)
  • Setup
  • EPICS Devices
  • Configure the detector
  • Visualise the plugin chain
  • bp.count — collect statistics without a motor scan
  • bp.scan — 1-D scan with one motor
  • bp.scan — 1-D scan with two motors together
  • bp.grid_scan — 2-D mesh scan
  • Bonus: scan with HDF5 image files
• How to interrupt/stop/abort a running plan & recover to safe settings
  • Terminate or Interrupt
  • Handle Exceptions
  • Suspending the RunEngine
  • Recover Safe Settings
  • Summary
• What are the objects to control?
  • listobjects() function
  • listdevice() function
  • .component_names method
  • .summary() method
  • %wa magic command
  • listplans() function
  • findCatalogsInNamespace() function
• Grouping Motors with mb_creator
  • Background
  • Let’s start
  • The motors keyword
  • The prefix keyword
  • The labels keyword
  • The class_bases keyword
  • The class_name keyword
  • Advanced use
• Quick Start: Grouping Motors with mb_creator
  • Basic Usage
• How to use NeXus/HDF5 Templates
  • Overview
  • Build the powder diffraction instrument
  • Write data to a NeXus/HDF5 file
  • Use the NXmonopd application definition
  • Run a $2\theta:\theta$ scan
  • Look at the NeXus/HDF5 NXmonopd file
• How to Search for Bluesky Data?
  • What is a catalog?
  • What is a run?
  • How to retrieve a run?
  • Search with listruns()
  • Search with a Filtered catalog
  • Other searches:
• How to setup logging
  • Handlers
  • What are the logging levels?