MODS2025

Version 1.2.1

Last Update: 2025 Aug 3 [rwp/osu]

Lead: Richard Pogge (OSU Astronomy) [email protected]

Overview

MODS2025 Project to update MODS1+2 CCD and instrument control systems at the LBT

This our very messy working repository, not the final flight code repository that will be built later.
Proceed at your own risk

However, it is taking on many of the structures of the real thing, so not totally sloppy. Sort of.

Contents

• mods - MODS instrument control and data-acquisition system
• ISIS - ISIS message-passing server and client
• azcam - AzCam server for the MODS Archon CCD controllers
• Config - MODS instance runtime configuration files released for observing operations
• Scripts - Startup and status scripts (coming soon...)
• Sandbox - place to put test codes and other bits we are using, the action is in the subfolders

Installation

See the INSTALL.md file in this repository.

Package dependencies

This is a running list during development phase as we discover what is missing from the AlmaLinux 9.x systems we're setting up.

dnf -y install tk tcsh emacs doxygen
dnf -y install readline readline-devel
dnf -y install libmodbus libmodbus-devel
dnf -y install qt6-qtbase-devel qt6-qtsvg-devel
dnf -y install libice3.7-c++ libice-c++-devel python3-ice
...
dnf -y install dnsutils wget (nice, but not required)
...
Also need the local LBTO versions of hdf5 and lbto-libtelemetry, build from local rpms

Authors and Contributors

• Rick Pogge (OSU Astronomy) [email protected]
• Xander Carroll (OSU Astronomy) [email protected]
• Jerry Mason (OSU Astronomy) [email protected]
• Mike Lesser (UA, retired)
• Matthieu Bec (LBTO) [email protected]
• Glenn Eychaner (LBTO) [email protected]
• ...