pysmlib
Python Finite State Machines for EPICS
Developers: Damiano Bortolato - Davide Marcato @ Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro - INFN
Main Repository: https://github.com/darcato/pysmlib
Full documentation: https://darcato.github.io/pysmlib/docs/html/
Main features
- Easy to use and fast development of complex event based fsm - just code the states!
- Full EPICS Channel Access integration via PyEpics.
- High expandability as provided by all the libraries of Python.
- Integrated configurable logging systems.
- Convenient methods to access all the information on I/O.
- Timers can be used to execute actions after a time delay.
- Integrated watchdog logic.
- Multi-threading: each fsm is executed on a different thread, sharing I/O.
- Convenient loader to launch a daemon with multiple fsm.
- Possibility to apply a configurable naming convention on I/O.
Installation
To install simply run:
pip install pysmlibor download the latest release/sources from github, unpack it and run:
cd pysmlib
pip install .Dependencies
Requires Python 3.6+. Pyepics is required and automatically installed by pip. Sphinx and its theme "Read the Docs" are required to build the documentation.
Example
