pklaus/phoebus repository overview

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⁠Phoebus in Docker

This is an effort to "dockerize" Phoebus⁠, a control system GUI for EPICS, (formerly known as CS-Studio or Control System Studio when it was still based on Eclipse). Phoebus is free software licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 1.0 and is published on Github⁠.

Dockerfile found on Github: pkaus / docker-phoebus⁠

⁠Available Tags

• latest, 4.6.3, 4.6.3_66a3c27
  Phoebus "nightly" 4.6.3 (?) as in commit 66a3c27⁠.

⁠Running the GUI on the host's X11 Server

KEY=$(xauth list | grep "$(hostname)/unix:0" | awk '{ print $3 }' | head -n 1)
CONT_HOSTNAME=docker-phoebus
xauth add $CONT_HOSTNAME/unix:0 . $KEY

docker run \
    -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
    -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/tmp/.Xauthority \
    -v /dev/snd:/dev/snd \
    -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
    -e XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority  \
    -h $CONT_HOSTNAME \
    --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri \
    --rm -it \
  pklaus/phoebus

xauth remove $CONT_HOSTNAME/unix:0

Phoebus can be started with further arguments/options by providing them as additional commands at the end of the run statement. (For the Docker experts: Phoebus' product.jar is the Docker ENTRYPOINT.) Here are a couple of examples, for a full list, check out the documentation on starting Phoebus⁠.

• -list to show all options available for startup and exit,
• -resource pv://?root:aiExample\&root:ai2\&app=databrowser to open the databrowser with the specified PVs,
• -settings /storage/phoebus_settings.ini to start with a custom (e.g. bind-mounted) settings file.

⁠History

The first packaging of phoebus for Docker happened in May 2019 in the context of the CSS/RDB Archiver (aka beauty): https://github.com/pklaus/beauty_docker/commits/master/phoebus⁠