TMS Meeting Minutes, September 23, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Bo Xin, Breann, Heejoo, John, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Updates: * John sent out an update from t...
TMS Meeting Minutes, December 9, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Christian, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) TMS Operations: * There were no op...
TMS Meeting Minutes, January 6, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Christian, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton (Zoom Meeting) Winter Storm: * Snow on top of the dome m...
TMS Meeting Minutes, February 3, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Olga, Matthieu, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Issues at LBT: * Three large UPS's ...
TMS Meeting Minutes, March 10, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Christian, John, Olga, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Problems with TMS 3/9: * Complete failure of TMS on right sid...
TMS Meeting Minutes, March 17, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Bo, Breann, Christian, Olga, Matthieu, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Meeting on April 8th: * Andrew forwa...
TMS Meeting Minutes, March 24, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Christian, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Recent Updates from TMS Run on 3/23: * Multiple ch...
TMS Meeting Minutes, March 31, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Christian, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Trenton was encountering severe network dropouts, so these no...
TMS Meeting Minutes, April 14, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Christian, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Possible Improvements in AO at LBT: ...
TMS Meeting Minutes, May 6, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Christian, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Issues w/ MultiLine PC TeamViewer: * There may ...
TMS Meeting Minutes, May 12, 2022 Attendees: Andrew, Christian, Heejoo, John, Olga, Yang (Zoom Meeting) * Trenton was unable to attend as he was busy at the Op...
23rd Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) Conference September 29 October 3, 2013, Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Hawai'i See the main page:...
Alarm Handler Software The Alarm Handler software is a third party Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) package (http://www.aps.anl.gov/epic...
Acronyms and Definitions in common use within the LBT Active Optics Works by "actively" adjusting the telescope's mirrors. Actuator A one or two axis pn...
THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE Alarm Handler Build and Installation Procedures Please note that these instructions only apply to the ALH GUI now the other EPICS appli...
THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE Build and Installation Procedures for the EPICS Input/Output Controllers (IOCs) on 64 bit machines The following notes provide details on...
THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE Using the Alarm Hander for Development on a Programmer Workstation Instructions for Getting/Running the ALH with Your Working Version of...
INDI ALH Driver Testing While testing, we initially created a simple INDI driver to allow testing of the web status server that didn't require EPICS, etc. This dr...
Archive Software * LBT Archive Troubleshooting Guide (INAF, Fall 2017) Archive Startup Procedure (Adapted from an email to IT from Cristina June 2015) There a...
BP8 Test Report This is the high level status report for the TCS BP8 testing. Because we were not able to observe during the day to perform some basic regression ...
Main.MicheleDeLaPena 04 Jan 2007 Table of Contents Characterization of the Pointing Control System (PCS) Mount Polynomials As part of an on going effort to un...
This is a discussion of problems on the mountain the evening of Wednesday, 20 Jun 2007, and in the early morning of 22 Jun 2007. This has been submitted as IssueT...
Computer Shutdown and Startup Procedures Computer room shutdowns/startups are mostly automated. A script monitors UPS status and commands shutdown(s) as needed....
Notes while Rehosting LBC Software 4 June 2013 Sent a note to Baruffolo today with the questions about the latest IDL files for the Windows PCs. I included the ...
FACSUM Release Notes Version 2.1.10 Released to Tucson and the mountain (17 March 2016) * Upgrades to accommodate displaying the LBC guiding thumbnail image ...
FACSUM Release Notes Version 2.2d Released to Tucson and the mountain (28 April 2016) * The AO section is now displaying messages which match the AOSGUI. The...
Guiding Control System Controls AGW units. Runs full guiding for LUCI, MODS / PEPSI (secondary focus) and PEPSI PFU (tertiary focus). LBTI/LN and LBC have own aut...
GCS Software Description The GCS subsystem is the control software for the LBT off axis autoguiding and wavefront sensing hardware (AGW). The GCS supports two di...
HDF5 Telemetry Data Maintenance Procedures Users / Machines ksummers is the user for replicating from the mountain to Tucson. We use the ssh machine on the moun...
Pseudo monocular Introduction Pseudo monocular "mode" was invented to allow "parasitic observing": allowing an instrument on one ("passive") side to take exposur...
IIF command support status Operational status for IIF commands. IIF Status "Operational" means the code exists for the instrument to compile and link against. TCS...
Updates to Spare CMU Required Document here the changes I have made to the LBTO CMU to make things work that are system related and so have to be updated in the I...
INDI at LBTO LBTO is implementing INDI (Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface) as the mechanism for instruments to provide data to the observatory and for the ...
About Ice stands for the Internet Communication Engine. Please see Wikipedia page for details. Where you can find Ice Ice is used (on the server side) in: IIF I...
Notes about Instrument Software Alarms via ALH To Do * EPICS DB and TCS DD details * separate IOC for instrument data to look at timestamps? * Guidance ...
Instrument / Facility Host Contacts The following contact information can be used for any issues with instrument or TCS system shutdown/startup, as referenced in ...
Instrument MongoDB Interface Please note, we are not planning to use MongoDB anymore, but have decided to use the INDI architecture model. See Software/INDIIn...
Instrument Software Notes * Instrument Interface Description T481s00016 in progress , defines the data required from instruments to the observatory (alarms...
Integration Testing of BBB LBC CCD Controller Still To Do * several software issues were found in the July/Aug testing on the mountain. See Software/LBCBBB...
Testing with the new BBB July/August 2016 Initial Configuration Setup * we had set the static network info for the mountain on the BBB before coming up to the...
Building and Installing the LBC Software Build the TCS ssh X lbccontrol #64;cmu.lbc.lbto.org cd /lbt/tcs svn export https://svn.lbto.org/repos/tcs/bran...
LBC CCD Controller Standalone Test Program There is a standalone main program that runs on Windows XP (2002) for checking out the CCD controller functionality wit...
LBC Control Software * LBC Software SPIE paper 2014, LBC Software SPIE paper 2004 * lbccontrol all the documentation is here, hardware, software descripti...
New LBC CMUs Configuration and Testing * the data probe does not respond through LBC software for housekeeping unless you are root; during shutdown when we fin...
LBC Profibus Testing on new CMU We ordered a PCI express version of the profibus board: Item: DRL DPM PCIE Molex Part N\xBA 1120115028 The card came with a CD w...
Testing CMU version of LBC tracking On Sky 20141224 Barry used it on sky on 24 Dec 2014. Four crashes in TCS processing, all in cleanup of the result object. Ig...
LBC Software Description * Directory description, COTS software * Details for LBC configuration files * Full system checkout how to run overall tests ...
LBC Software Handover The ideal handover scenario includes planning, presentation, training, a build/run exercise and a support agreement with the developer. The...
As of 29 May 2013, this is on hold as we try to figure out how close the INAF guys are to having an Ethernet solution for the CCD controller which will not requir...
LBC Software Rehost Notes Initially, we were on a path to rehost the LBC software to newer machines and operating systems. However, SkyTech is working on new CCD...
LBC Full up Software Checkout Engineering level testing during startup after summer shutdown, host machine replacement, etc. See also: Test Programs for more not...
Included in Software/LBCControlSoftwareNotes page LBC Software Updates Binocular/Queue * Checking authorized or just enabled via the LBC GUI? * LBC is...
Sample run of testfilters on the CMU. It's most useful to watch the log file at the same time, so get two terminal windows up on the CMU. Please be very careful w...
LBC Tracking Tests 20141210 Details from the short period of sky testing on 20141210. Summary * 1 crash in the new TCS code on a preset (but many others worked...
LBC Windows Machine Configuration Need to configure the new machine with Windows 7 The details listed here: http://lbccontrol/software/wininst.shtml for the o...
LBC Windows PC Software Rehost Incorporating Guiding/Active Optics into the Tracker object The 2.1 version was released in January 2016. These notes are now ju...
LBC Rehost to Windows 7 and CentOS on New Machines As of Feb 2014, this is cancelled in favor of the Sky Tech Ethernet solution for the CCD controller which will ...
MODS Overview MODS1 and MODS2 are UV to nearIR Multi Object Double Spectrgraphs that are mounted at the Direct Gregorian focal stations of the LBT. They were desi...
Telescope and Mountain Troubleshooting Procedures IT * InformationTechnology/WebHome the IT wiki page with links to rack diagram, password db, etc. * ...
OT Scripting OT scripting backend DNS: otscripting.lbto.org Currently as of Apr 2018, the otscripting.lbto.org , with ip: 150.135.245.17, is based on a Tucson VM,...
Application Dependencies on mounted disks (NAS/Synology) This page is an attempt to capture NFS mounted disk dependencies that require actions on other hosts to f...
Software Release Notes for Build 18 Release Date: Feb 1, 2009 Generic Release Name: B18 Public Release Name: Lucifer Com Again! Specific Tests that need to ...
Software Release Notes for Build 19 Release Date: Jan 31, 2009 Generic Release Name: B19 Public Release Name: TCS Test Specific Tests that need to be perfor...
Software Release Notes for Build "20" Release Date: Feb 5, 2009 Generic Release Name: B20 Public Release Name: TCS Testing/Lucifer Com Specific Tests that n...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012B" Release Date: Feb 04, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012B Public Release Name: General release 2012B General Descripti...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012C" Release Date: Mar 08, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012C Public Release Name: general release 2012C General Descripti...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012D" Release Date: April 01, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012D Public Release Name: general release 2012D General Descrip...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012E" Release Date: May 08, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012E Public Release Name: general release 2012E General Descripti...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012F" Release Date: June 06, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012F Public Release Name: general release 2012F General Descript...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012G" Release Date: September 03, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012G Public Release Name: general release 2012G General Des...
Software Release Notes for Build "2012H" Release Date: September 26, 2012 Generic Release Name: 2012H Public Release Name: General Release 2012H General Descrip...
Software Release Notes for Build "2016A" Release Date: Feb 12, 2016 Release Name: 2016A General Description: Rollup of changes and patches since 2015C (see 2015...
Software Release Notes for Build "2016B" Release Date: Sep 08/09, 2016 Release Name: 2016B General Description: Rollup of changes and patches since 2016A (see 20...
Software Release Notes for Build "2017A" Release Date: Jun 29, 2017 Release Name: 2017A General Description: Rollup of changes and patches since 2016B. Telescop...
Software Release Notes for Build 21 Release Date: Feb 19, 2009 Generic Release Name: B21 Public Release Name: TCS Internal Test Release Specific Tests that ...
Software Release Notes for Build 22 Release Date: Mar 4, 2009 Generic Release Name: B22 Public Release Name: TCS Testing using Lucifer Specific Tests that n...
Software Release Notes for Build 23 Release Date: Mar 31, 2009 Generic Release Name: B 23 Public Release Name: B 23 TCS, IRTC, Lucifer Testing Specific Test...
Software Release Notes for Build "B26 ???" Release Date: May 07, 2009 Generic Release Name: B26 Public Release Name: ??? v? Specific Tests that need to b...
Software Release Notes for Build "B27" Release Date: May 22, 2009 Generic Release Name: B27 Public Release Name: HBS Enhancement Specific Tests that need t...
Software Release Notes for Build "29" Release Date: June 10, 2009 Generic Release Name: B29 Public Release Name: ??? vn Specific Tests that need to be perf...
Software Release Notes for Build "B30" Release Date: July 20, 2009 Generic Release Name: B30 Public Release Name: General Development Specific Tests that n...
Software Release Notes for Build "31" Release Date: Aug 7, 2009 Generic Release Name: B31 Public Release Name: B31 Specific Tests that need to be performed...
Software Release Notes for Build 32 Release Date: Aug 28, 2009 Generic Release Name: B32 Public Release Name: TCS General Development NOTE: This build is b...
Software Release Notes for Build 32A Release Date: Sep 3rd, 2009 Generic Release Name: B32A Public Release Name: This build corrects the guiding problem with...
Software Release Notes for Build B32B Release Date: September 22, 2009 Generic Release Name: B32B Public Release Name: The build incorporates the latest Point...
Software Release Notes for Build "B34" Release Date: Oct 9, 2009 Generic Release Name: B34 Public Release Name: General Release plus PCS LBC Trajectories Te...
Software Release Notes for Build "35" Release Date: Nov 24, 2009 Generic Release Name: B35 Public Release Name: Build 35, General Development Telescope Opera...
Software Release Notes for Build 36 Release Date: Jan 21, 2010 Generic Release Name: B36 Public Release Name: General Development Telescope Operator Overvi...
Software Release Notes for Build "BP12" Release Date: Oct 6, 2011 Generic Release Name: BP12 Public Release Name: Non sidereal Observing first version release B...
Software Release Notes for Build "BP13" Release Date: Oct 6, 2011 Generic Release Name: BP13 Public Release Name: Non sidereal Observing first version release B...
TCS SW Test Reports * November 17, 2014 2014D Test Report: Passed. Put into Science Operations. The major changes were the addition of IT severity codes, and...
Summer Shutdown 2018 Planning IT * Consolidate OVMS software onto TCS machines any pb? old box. replace box vm ? could do * Upgrade ASA firewalls on the...
Telescope Control System TCS is controlling the LBTO observatory. It's various subsystems control and provides a readout of sensors on the building, mount, rotato...
TCS Software Tests that have been completed. B35 Test 1 Verify the problem of predicting a premature encounter with the end of the rotator cable wrap is fixe...
TCS Configuration C. Biddick, July 2017 Networking The TCS uses both UDP and TCP for various network operations. There are six IP addresses of importance, which ...
TCS Testing using IRTC, LBC, and MODS Some instrument testing we can do ourselves as the software group, we do not require an astronomer. IRTC Simple script fo...
TMS Overview TMS is the Telescope Metrology System used on LBT. TMS Operation The following are links to related pages: * TMS Turn On Procedure * TMS Sanit...
TMS Meeting Minutes, October 22, 2020 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Meeting Notes: * Updates on the trip up the mounta...
TMS Meeting Minutes, December 17, 2020 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Trenton, Matthieu, Olga, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Meeting Notes: * Andrew does not l...
TMS Meeting Minutes, February 4, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Matthieu, Trenton, Olga, Yang (Zoom Meeting) * No chance to open the telescope l...
TMS Meeting Minutes, February 18, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, John, Matthieu, Trenton, Olga, Yang (Zoom Meeting) * Andrew believes we may have a sign error somewhe...
TMS Meeting Minutes, March 4, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Olga, Yang (Zoom Meeting) TMS Test, February 27: * Some issues were encountered (Z...
TMS Meeting Minutes, March 11, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, Olga, Trenton (Zoom Meeting) Updates from the past week: * John tested the updated TMS c...
TMS Meeting Minutes, May 13, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, Matthieu, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Etalon Work on Etalon Software: * Etalon has ...
TMS Meeting Minutes, August 19, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Update on Fiber Switch Conversation with Mark (eT...
TMS Meeting Minutes, September 2, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Andrew's Thermal Analysis * fill in from recording ...
TMS Meeting Minutes, October 7, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Bo, Breann, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Updates * Data from 2021.10.03 looks good ...
TMS Meeting Minutes, October 14, 2021 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Christian, Heejoo, John, Olga, Trenton, Yang (Zoom Meeting) Updates: * Recently, had a few day...
2020.01.27 Steps for alignment set up for Laser Truss Stephanie and Heejoo Equipment: Laser Tracker, Spatial Analyzer Software, Etalon unit, Allen key (two types...
TMS Meeting Minutes, June 4, 2020 (this is a software specific meeting). Attendees: Andrew, Heejoo, John, Trenton, Matthieu, Yang (Zoom meeting) Meeting agenda s...
TMS Meeting Minutes, July 16, 2020 Attendees: Andrew, Breann, Heejoo, John, Matthieu, Trenton, Yang (Zoom meeting) Meeting discussion summary: * This is a not...
Running experimental TMS software This page outlines the steps needed to run the TMS (Telescope Metrology System) experimental software developed during the summe...
This page is under construction TMS Core Calculations and Algorithms This page details the essential decisions made in the TMS software when calculating a TMS c...
LBTO TCS Simulator The TCS simulation has been packaged to run as a "virtual machine appliance" which is supplied by LBTO to instrument builders. Once this applia...
ARGOS DX Swing Arm Incident 2015/04/24 24.04.2015 around 17:00 local time, with the Handover from ARGOS day time activities to the Telescope night time operation ...