NOBUGS 2026

Bridging Sardana and Bluesky: Adopting the Bluesky Queue Server for Sardana Control

Sardana and Bluesky are two widely used control systems at synchrotron facilities, each with a large existing user base and macro/plan libraries. Bluesky provides a good way to orchestrate experiments using queue plans, and lets users manage and monitor those queues through the queue server. The queue server...

High-intensity laser experiments require tight integration between camera acquisition, shot diagnostics, analysis, metadata capture, archiving, and experiment-control workflows. At Helmholtz Institute Jena, the POLARIS laser environment historically relied on standalone LabVIEW-based vision applications and manual operational workflows. In cooperation with S2Innovation, this software was...

Blissdata is a redis-based experimental data management system developed at the ESRF for the Bliss software ecosystem. It provides a powerful Redis stream enabled API to data allowing users to access and search data produced during their experiment. I will present here an integration into Tiled, a distributed data access platform developed out of the Bluesky community. Registering Blissdata as...

Skybeam is an in-development browser-based graphical interface for Bluesky-driven experiment orchestration, currently being piloted for the In situ and Operando Soft X-ray Spectroscopy (IOS) beamline at NSLS-II. The project is translating IOS X-ray absorption spectroscopy workflows into a guided application for sample preparation, scan configuration, execution, and live monitoring.

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