Dan Allan

Progress bars with simulated hardware

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## Expected Behavior All movable devices should cause `ProgressBarManager` to display a progress bar on a placeholder indicating that movement in progress but no progress bar is available. ## Current...

Updated plan for best-effort callback rewrite

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The [Best-Effort Callback](https://blueskyproject.io/bluesky/callbacks.html#best-effort-callback) was introduced as an experimental feature. It automatically builds instances of `LiveTable`, `LivePlot`, and others to produce a "best effort" visualization of data as it comes it....

mv_with_retries

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Sometimes it is useful to retry moves, with appropriate disclaimers about the undefined behavior. It may be worth hoisting this plan, which I drafted in an email have not tested,...

LivePlot axes limits reset on each new data point

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From SIX: > I noticed that from the new upgrade, if one zooms into a plot while a scan is ongoing, this gets immediately reset at the next datapoint. It...

Report timing.

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We have received reports of software feeling slower during the latest rollout. As far as we can tell things should actually be _faster_ (due to ophyd's use of auto-monitoring). It...

In the tutorial, include troubleshooting help for Qt installation problems.

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On gitter, @whs92 kindly reported issues following our tutorial related to Qt. It would make sense to include some troubleshooting instructions, and perhaps links to relevant Stack Overflow answers.

Document (and smooth over any pain points in) interactive plots during acquisition in Jupyter

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I think we can limit this to assuming that the user has latest stable matplotlib and ipympl. Key thing is to cover: * Bluesky before and after v1.6.0 (i.e. teleporter,...

I believe that `fields[0]` here makes assumptions about Devices that don't necessary hold. It killed a scan. https://github.com/bluesky/bluesky/blob/a4a6f696ccd5fb7f48957a5b004aef2b8e6c71dc/bluesky/callbacks/best_effort.py#L127-L131 Traceback reported by @johnsinsheimer via email: ``` Traceback (most recent call last):...

Prompted by #1395

Refactor the document-bundling code to use the compose_run function in event-model

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There are currently two sets of tools for composing valid documents in the bluesky ecosystem: the `Bundler` class used by the `RunEngine` in the bluesky repo, and the `compose_run` function...