Welcome to LOFAR2.0 Station Control’s documentation!

LOFAR2.0 Station Control is a software stack aimed to monitor, control, and manage a LOFAR2.0 station. In order to do so, it whips up a series of Docker containers, and combines the power of Tango Controls, PyTango, Docker, Grafana, Jupyter Notebook, and many others to provide a rich and powerful experience in using the station.

Full monitoring and control access to the LOFAR2.0 station hardware is provided, by marshalling their rich OPC-UA interfaces. Higher-level logic makes it possible to easily configure and obtain the LOFAR station data products (beamlets, XSTs, SSTs, BSTs) from your local machine using Python, or through one of our provided web interfaces.

Even without having access to any LOFAR2.0 hardware, you can install the full stack on your laptop, and experiment with the software interfaces.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Post-boot Initialisation
  • Configuration
• Interfaces
• Devices
• Using Devices
  • States
  • FAULT
  • Initialise hardware
  • Attributes
  • Attribute masks
• AntennaField-HB (AFH), AntennaField-LB (AFL)
  • Observation setup
  • Positions
  • Configuration
  • HBAT element positions
• TileBeam, DigitalBeam
  • Common functionality
  • DigitalBeam
• Beamlet
• RECVH, RECVL
  • Error information
• SDP Firmware
  • Basic configuration
  • Error information
• SDP
  • Basic configuration
  • Frequency management
  • Data-quality information
  • Error information
  • Version Information
  • Waveform Generator
• BST, SST, and XST
  • BST Statistics attributes
  • SST Statistics attributes
  • XST Statistics attributes
  • Subscribe to statistics streams
• StationManager
• Docker
• PSOC
• CCD
• EC
• Configuration
• TemperatureManager
• Device Configuration
  • TangoDB
  • Device interaction
  • Command-line interaction
• Enter your LOFAR2.0 Hardware Configuration
  • Mandatory settings
  • Optional settings
• Observing
  • Starting an observation
  • Managing observation(s)
• Signal Chain
  • RECV: Data reception
  • SDP: Digital signal processing
• Instrument Calibration
  • Mathematical Background
  • Configuration
  • Coarse Corrections
  • Fine Corrections
  • Managing Calibration Tables
  • Applying Calibration Values
• Celestial & Geodetic Calibration
• Broken Hardware
  • Disabling antennas
• Power distribution
• Developer information
  • Environment variables
  • Docker
  • Logging
  • Services
• FAQ
  • Connecting to devices
  • Docker
  • Windows
  • SSTs/XSTs
  • Other containers

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page