Getting started

  1. To set up your environment, follow the instructions on the Tango Development Environment set up page.

  2. Set up your itango docker container to mount your host working directory. This will allow you to launch locally hosted code within the itango container. To do this, edit /usr/src/ska-docker/docker-compose/itango.yml and add the following lines under the itango service definition:

volumes:
  - ${HOME}:/hosthome:rw

  1. Clone our GitLab repo.

  2. Verify your setup:

$ cd /usr/src/ska-docker/docker-compose
$ make start itango #not needed if it already shows in "make status"
$ docker exec -it -e PYTHONPATH=/hosthome/ska-logging:/hosthome/lmc-base-classes/src \
  itango python3 \
  /hosthome/lfaa-lmc-prototype/src/ska/mccs/MccsMaster.py -?
usage :  MccsMaster instance_name [-v[trace level]] [-nodb [-dlist <device name list>]]
Instance name defined in database for server MccsMaster :
$ docker exec -it -e PYTHONPATH=/hosthome/ska-logging:/hosthome/lmc-base-classes/src \
  itango tango_admin --add-server MccsMaster/01 MccsMaster lfaa/master/01
$ docker exec -it -e PYTHONPATH=/hosthome/ska-logging:/hosthome/lmc-base-classes/src \
  itango python3 \
  /hosthome/lfaa-lmc-prototype/src/ska/mccs/MccsMaster.py 01
1|2020-03-13T05:27:15.844Z|INFO|MainThread|write_loggingLevel|SKABaseDevice.py#490|tango-device:lfaa/master/01|Logging level set to LoggingLevel.INFO on Python and Tango loggers
1|2020-03-13T05:27:15.845Z|INFO|MainThread|update_logging_handlers|SKABaseDevice.py#169|tango-device:lfaa/master/01|Logging targets set to []
1|2020-03-13T05:27:15.846Z|INFO|MainThread|init_device|SKABaseDevice.py#399|tango-device:lfaa/master/01|No Groups loaded for device: lfaa/master/01
1|2020-03-13T05:27:15.846Z|INFO|MainThread|init_device|SKABaseDevice.py#401|tango-device:lfaa/master/01|Completed SKABaseDevice.init_device
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