Sardana

"Sardana is a software suite for Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition in scientific installations. It aims to reduce cost and time of design, development and support of the control and data acquisition systems. Sardana development was started at the ALBA synchrotron and today is supported by a larger community which includes several other laboratories and individuals.

Up to now, control applications in large installations have been notoriously difficult to share. Inspired by the success of the Tango collaboration, ALBA decided to start the creation of a generic tool to enlarge the scope of the Tango project to include a standard client program - or better a standard generic user environment. From the beginning our aim has been to involve others in this process. At this moment in time the user environment consists of a highly configurable standard graphical user interface, a standard command line interface understanding SPEC commands, and a standard way to compose new applications either by programming or with a graphical tool. It further consists of a standard macro executer, standard set of macros, a standard range of common hardware types (like motors, counters, cameras and so on) and a configuration editor to set all this up. The origin of the Sardana name comes from a Catalan dance to honor the region where the ALBA synchrotron is build. The toolkit to build Sardana has been C++, Python, Qt and Tango. If you like the tools you will love Sardana.

Spock is the prefered CLI for sardana. It is based on IPython. Spock automatically loads other IPython extensions like the ones for PyTango and pylab. It as been extended in sardana to provide a customized interface for executing macros and automatic access to sardana elements.

Spock tries to mimic SPEC‘s command line interface. Most SPEC commands are available from spock console."

http://sardana-controls.org/en/latest/