Using MacOS as a NOvA DAQ shifter tool

Please read the Wiki page for more tips.

The scripts can be found under https://github.com/novaexperiment/novadaq/tree/034639b48796a057c4356aebff790f42f98947cb/pkgs/NovaRemoteControlRooms or

/exp/nova/app/users/biaow/myROC/

Linux OS

For linux user, the VNC is ready to connect, run

 bash JustDoIt.sh FarDet-1

will connect to the DAQ server. It has been tested on Ubuntu 22 and AL9.

MacOS 14.5

To check if the VNC viewer is installed usefully, type

/Applications/VNC\ Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/vncviewer

in terminal and see if the screen pop-up.

Then edit the Tools.py with

    vncviewer_cmd=os.path.expandvars("${VNCVIEWER_CMD}")
    to_run = [ vncviewer_cmd , "-Shared" ]

and in SetupROCOptions.sh we want

export VNCVIEWER_CMD='/Applications/VNC Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/vncviewer'
#export VNCVIEWER_CMD='vncviewer'
alias python=python3

so that each time we run JustDoIt.sh, the Real VNC viewer is ready to connect.

• The password is the common password for remote control room since 2017.

Connect to NearDet-4 with MacOS 15.3

We now run Synoptics display on NearDet-4 server and we have to update pkgs/NovaControlRoom/scripts/Connections.py and pkgs/NovaRemoteControlRooms/Tools.py

And on MacOS 15, we should use the 3-year-old version of JustDoIt.sh to connect smoothly.