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- top menu bar
- content area (perspective)
- bottom status/info bar
This information is applicable to all the LOUIs for instrument control; LMI, DeVeny & NIHTS.
Menu Bar
The left section of the top menu bar has three buttons for selecting different perspectives. The Dashboard is the one that should be used by observers. The Developer perspective requires a login and as the name implies is for engineering purposes. The Custom/Personal perspective is a place holder for power users to fully customize a perspective to their own requirements. This perspective is not very practical right now because all astronomers use the same account and there is no way to persist a chosen configuration. There are plans for individual institutional accounts which would allow such customizations in the future.
The right section has a series of buttons that can be relevant to the observer:
- Get Temp - Starts the temperature logging loop which is usually the last thing the observer does before ending the observing session
- Exit LOIS - As the name implies, sends a message to LOIS to exit.
- Initialize LOIS - Sends the initialization command to LOIS after it has been started. There is currently no way to start LOIS remotely from the UI.
- Test Broker - A message to the ActiveMQ message broker to check and see whether there is a communication problem.
- Disable Exposure - ???
- Enable Exposure - ???
- Stop Series/Script - Sends the "nstop -async' command to LOIS which causes a series or script to terminate. This does not cause an exposure abort.
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Dashboard - Upper Left Pane contains the imager, camera telemetry and Facility Summary views.
Dashboard - Upper Right Pane for LMI contains LMI Camera Control, User Buttons, Automated Functions, Pixel Dump and , Line Profile and other views specific to an instrument. This is the only pane varies considerably among instruments. The example above for LMI.
Dashboard - Console Pane contains consoles which display LOIS log, LOIS commands, and LOIS telemetry in raw XML.
Dashboard - Info Pane contains the Info view used for setting storage path and getting information regarding exposure.
Please refer to the description of the different panes for more details. The layout and composition of the content area is what a perspective is designed to do and the above layout is the one coded for the Dashboard. But it is important to remember that this layout can be customized in real time.