SlowDash

SlowDash is a web GUI tool for controlling and monitoring concurrent systems (slow controls and data acquisition), originally designed for physics experiments. Like Grafana, SlowDash does not include data storage systems; it interacts with users and exchanges data and messages with existing databases, devices, and/or other control systems.

Project Goal

Grafana-like data browser for time-series data and ROOT-like data objects (graphs, histograms, etc.)
LabVIEW-like visual control (graphical control panel)
Jupyter-like Python scripting

Current Status: ~70% of the initial design implemented

Data browser mostly working
Controls partly implemented
Analysis part (scripting etc.) is experimental

Screenshots

Dashboard

Interactive Plots

Dash-Start

If you already have time-series data stored on a database, and have docker-compose available on your system, visualization can be done instantly. See the "Dash Start" section of Github Pages.

Setup and Quick Look

Docker (amd64-linux & Windows WSL)

Prerequisites for this trial

Git
Docker & Docker Compose

Step 1: Clone (for example projects)

git clone https://github.com/slowproj/slowdash.git

Step 2: Setup

none

Step 3: Start an example project

cd slowdash/ExampleProjects/DummyDataSource
docker-compose up

Step 4: Take a look with a browser

Open a web browser and connect to http://localhost:18881. To stop, type ctrl-c in the docker-compose window, or use docker-compose stop (or down to remove the container)

Docker on Mac (Apple Silicon), Raspberry-Pi, etc.

Prerequisites for this trial

Git
Docker & Docker Compose

Step 1: Clone with submodules

git clone https://github.com/slowproj/slowdash.git --recurse-submodules

Step 2: Setup

cd slowdash
docker build -t slowdash .

Step 3: Start an example project

cd slowdash/ExampleProjects/DummyDataSource

Edit docker-compose.yaml to change image: slowproj/slowdash to image: slowdash

docker-compose up

Step 4: Take a look with a browser

Open a web browser and connect to http://localhost:18881. To stop, type ctrl-c in the docker-compose window, or use docker-compose stop (or down to remove the container)

Bare-Metal

Prerequisites for this trial

Git
Python3 (>=3.8) and packages:
- numpy, pyyaml, psutil

The procedure below will create a new directory, slowdash. Everything is fully contained under this directory, and nothing in your system (other than this directory) will be modified throughout this trial.

Step 1: Clone with submodules

git clone https://github.com/slowproj/slowdash.git --recurse-submodules

Step 2: Setup

cd slowdash
make
source bin/slowdash-bashrc

Here make is used only to copy some files within the slowdash directory. If submodules are missing, make will also run git submodule update --init --recursive.

Step 3: Start an example project

cd ExampleProjects/DummyDataSource
slowdash --port=18881

Step 4: Take a look with a browser

Open a web browser and connect to http://localhost:18881. To stop, type ctrl-c in the slowdash console in Step 3.

Documentation

Manuals are on the Github Pages.

See Github Wiki for

Status and Updates
Feature Ideas; your ideas are welcome!

Docker Images

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/slowproj/slowdash.git --recurse-submodules
cd slowdash
docker build -t slowdash .

DockerHub

https://hub.docker.com/r/slowproj/slowdash

docker pull slowproj/slowdash

GitHub Package

https://github.com/slowproj/slowdash/pkgs/container/slowdash

docker pull ghcr.io/slowproj/slowdash