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Tango class for controlling different types of spectrometers from Amptek. The detector has to be connected to the computer via USB. A python script communicates to the detector via USB and opens a socket. The Tango class communicates with the detector connecting via socket to this script. The class was originally developed by Alba and modified by MaXIV for allowing the TCP communication (the original class talks to the detector directly via UDP). This modified class is in the branch tcp of the repository.
On FS-EC debian hosts the aforementioned python script is started via udevd/systemd as a service when the device is plugged in. Service name is amptek.service, the setup is configured in puppet module module-fsecdrivers.