Re: Simple alarm monitor

[Matt Newville via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:59 AM Bo Jakobsen via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Hi all

I am looking for a "simple alarm monitor".
The ones I found all seems to be to large a framework to set up for what I am trying to do on a small scale.

I would just like a monitor program which monitors a small number of PV's (order of 50)

* Writes to a log when the PV goes into or out of Alarm status

* Potentially can call a external program the an alarm happens (for e.g. sending a text messeage or mail).

I was considering to write something in python, but if something like this already exists that would be easier :-)

Will http://pyepics.github.io/pyepics/alarm.html#alarm-example  help?

It's not quite a real app, but a simple enough script that it could be turned into an app for 50-ish PVs pretty easily.

--Matt