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The LCLS provides a number of tools that allow users and staff to participate remotely in experiments while access to the site is restricted due to COVID-19 safety protocols. These were demonstrated in the LCLS User Town Hall held on July 23, 2020, and available HERE. This page will provide an overview of tools for external (incl. users) and internal (staff only) use, and provides links to pages with additional details such as installation and usage guides, as well as minimum system requirements.
The LCLS provides a number of internally developed and 3rd party tools to share information before, during, and following an experiment. At all times during the process, the spokesperson and collaborators should continue to communicate directly with their assigned LCLS Point of Contact, and use the standard tools such as the Experiment Questionnaire and Electronic Log Book of Experiment, "eLog", (links below).
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Before your beam-time, perform a Network Speed Test to verify the speed of your network connection to SLAC, and fill out the associated survey while testing out the other tools listed below.
The LCLS will provide real-time interactive video conferencing via for each experiment. For details, please refer to our Zoom User Guide.
Each hutch control room will be equipped with a streaming host.
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This allows viewers to get information from each hutch control room computer with minimal additional load on the computers or the operator(s).
Electronic log book of experiment - new and improved for Run 18!
Internally, we are using or developing additional remote access tools. They are described here for information purposes. If you believe your experiment would benefit from the use of these tools, contact your LCLS experiment Point of Contact.
Stanford University maintains an enterprise license to the slack chat application. Here is the getting started guide from University IT. External guests from can be added to specific channels upon request and LCLS agreement, discuss with your LCLS Point of Contact.
To support remote operations a dedicated NoMachine Terminal Server has been deployed: psnxopr.slac.stanford.edu.
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LCLS has acquired a number of augmented reality headsets to allow staff technicians and engineers to co-view a workspace while respecting social-distancing protocols.
Hardware: https://www.realwear.com/products/hmt-1/
Software: https://www.amaxperteye.com/
We are using Space1 as the software platform for communicating with the AR headset.
Login here to call the headset and use the communication tools:
Login for operator:
Help1@slac.stanford.edu Help1!
Login for headset (Virtual collaboration – Space1)
User3@slac.stanford.edu User3!
Within the call you can,
We were able to establish calls from psconsole to the headset over EDUROAM wifi in the FEH.
Demo video recorded from psconsole screen (no sound):
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We have purchased two remote presence robots to assist remote viewing and debugging of instrumentation at beam height where fixed overhead web cameras may have difficulty looking while an area is locked during beam delivery. https://www.doublerobotics.com/double3.html. At present these
One of the units is enabled in developer mode, this allows development work with the base Unix environment that the robot is running on, as well as full access to the programming of the robot drive, and detectors.
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