Welcome to NeXuS BlissData Writer's documentation!

Authors: Jan Kotanski

NeXuS BlissData Writer Server is a Tango Server which allows to write NeXus file from (meta)data stored in BlissData by NXSDataWriter tango server

Tango Server API: https://nexdatas.github.io/nxsblisswriter/doc_html

Source code: https://github.com/nexdatas/nxsblisswriter/

Web page: https://nexdatas.github.io/nxsblisswriter/

NexDaTaS Web page: https://nexdatas.github.io

Installation

Install the dependencies:

tango, sphinx

From sources

Download the latest version of NeXuS Configuration Server from

https://github.com/nexdatas/nxsblisswriter/

Extract the sources and run

$ python setup.py install

Debian packages

Debian Trixie, Bookworm, Bullseye and as well as Ubuntu Questing, Noble, Jammy packages can be found in the HDRI repository.

To install the debian packages, add the PGP repository key

$ sudo su
$ curl -s http://repos.pni-hdri.de/debian_repo.pub.gpg | gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg --import
$ chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg

and then download the corresponding source list, e.g. for trixie

$ cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ wget http://repos.pni-hdri.de/trixie-pni-hdri.sources

Finally,

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python3-nxsblisswriter

and the NXSBlissWriter tango server (from 2.10.0)

$ apt-get install nxsblisswriter

From pip

To install it from pip you need pymysqldb e.g.

$ python3 -m venv myvenv
$ . myvenv/bin/activate

$ pip install nxsblisswriter

Moreover it is also good to install

$ pip install pytango
$ pip install nxstools

Setting NeXus BlissData Writer Server

To set up NeXus Blissdata WriterServer with the default configuration run

$ nxsetup -x NXSBlissWriter

The nxsetup command comes from the python-nxstools package.