Tango, Generic Motor

There are various servers that export 'movables'. If they implement the motor_tango interface, they can be introduced to Online by using motor_tango as a module specification, like in the following example (/online_dir/online.xml):

<device>
 <name>mnchrmtr</name>
 <type>type_tango</type>
 <module>motor_tango</module>
 <device>p08/lomenergy/exp.01</device>
 <control>tango</control>
 <hostname>haso107tk:10000</hostname>
</device>

As in this example, monochromators are good candidates for being operated as motor_tango modules. It is important to use mnchrmtr as the alias because Online uses this name in the monochromator functions.

Details about this interface can be found in our Tango manual.