Dan Allan

Investigate how we might put the nexus files behind a custom Handler or something so that we can access them via databroker instead of directly from files.

- [ ] Every old notebook that is still useful should be updated to pass CI, otherwise deleted. No more bit rot in this house! :- D - [ ]...

Some tutorials could use more explanation between the code cells to better enable self-teaching. This will also make it easier for new DAMA members to jump in and run tutorials.

Make search retry timing back-off perform the same as epics-base/libca

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When a `SearchRequest` does not promptly elicit a response, we implement retry with back-off. Our back-off does not quite align with what RSRV does, empirically. AFAIK we have been unable...

Add support for the decimation filter.

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https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/4-docs/filters.html Per @hhslepicka: > It was added October 2019… Changes made between 3.15.6 and 3.15.7. It is available since 7.0.3.1

Revisit local interface discovery.

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It might be worth reviewing https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_client/blob/master/jupyter_client/localinterfaces.py to improve our interface discovery. The ideal for us would be a pure Python solution (which `netifaces` is not). It looks like there are...

Suggest installing netifaces if a search times out and it's not installed.

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In #461 I said: > This does raise a question for me about whether we should add netifaces as a required dependency for caproto Looking at `netifaces` again, I reminded...