2–5 Mar 2026
PSI
Europe/Zurich timezone

Future of NICOS Version 4 and following discussion of Proposal of features

4 Mar 2026, 15:30
1h
WBBC/111 (PSI)

WBBC/111

PSI

Speaker

Georg Brandl

Description

Future of NICOS - version 4? (GB)

What parts should be kept / rewritten / exchanged?
Simplification of protocol zoo
Who can contribute manpower and on what timescale?
Browser based?

->Presentation of NICOS Future -> Georg

Followed by discussion of and proposal of features

timestamping measurements (Vincent)
dynamic devices (e.g. SECoP) (AZ)
cross-service logging (EF)
handling/future of plotting libraries etc. (EF)
maxage?
UI scaling (in particular fonts) on high-res screens (Hanno)
Is anyone using templating approaches to sync many configuration files between instruments (GeorgeK)
How is the cache/poller/ (or other parts of NICOS) connected to EPICS ? Since EPICS has a kind of cache (the IOC). How do things work ? (This may only affect PSI and ESS) (Torsten)

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