Tools

The SECoP ecosystem contains quite a few different tools to create, connect to, and visualize SECoP enabled hardware.

Implementations

These packages implement the full SECoP protocol and provide both server and client libraries.

SHALL

The SHALL library is a C++/Qt based library implementing SECoP. It can be used for programming SECNodes in C, C++ and other languages compatible with the C-interface. In particular, a LabView binding is provided for easy integration of SECoP into existing LabView projects.

Frappy

Frappy is a Python-based framework that provides a basis for constructing SECNodes. The aim is for you to only program the parts relevant to communication with your hardware, and letting the framework handle everything else. Maybe you do not even need to code, since we have already written some drivers that you can also use.

It also comes with a client libraries and a ready graphical client out of the box.

Octopy

Octopy is SECoP in a publish/subscribe, topics based environment: an industrial IOT centered solution with an EPICS connection. It builds its SECoP infrastructure upon MQTT and provides interfaces for easy configuration like Node-RED.

µSECoP

µSECoP is an early-stage Rust implementation intended for embedded usage, e.g. in microcontollers. There are existing examples for the Esp32, the RP2040, and the Stm32.

Clients

These packages are dedicated clients to connect to SECoP nodes, or can use SECoP among other options.

secant-service

secant-service is SECoP client built with Elixir/Phoenix. It connects to one or more SEC Nodes, persists their parameter values in a database, and provides a web-interface for live plotting, control, and browsing of historic data.

NICOS

The NICOS instrument control system has built-in support for controlling SECoP, using frappy as a library to connect to SEC nodes and present their modules as NICOS devices.

secop-ophyd

secop-ophyd integrates SECoP hardware into the Bluesky experiment orchestration framework. It automatically generates ophyd-async device objects from a SECNode’s descriptive data, so SECoP modules can be used in Bluesky plans alongside EPICS, Tango, and other backends without any hand-written device definitions.

Other tools

secop-checker

secop-checker is a work-in-progress tool to check the static metadata of a SEC node against YAML schemata that define the API for all the different SECoP entities contained in it.

In short, it enables you to easily make sure your SEC nodes are standards compliant.

Spin

Spin is a status visualization/HMI tool that presents information . It has built-in support for SECoP nodes and modules among other control systems.