Ecosystem#
Tango Controls offers a rich ecosystem for developers and users alike.
Since Tango is a also a developer’s framework there are many libraries and tools for existing devices and clients. Refer to the overview for developers for more information.
Tango is designed to run small and large systems. To support managing large installations a number of administration tools are provided.
All control systems need to be able to archive data so that one can look at past data when needed. Tango comes with a number of archiving solutions and the archiving overview is our starting point for them.
In addition to the Python, C++ and Java APIs for Tango, a number of other languages and tools can be used together with Tango. Please have a look at our bindings overview where we list the currently known ones.
Here is the official list of the active Tango Ecosystem software:
Software |
Maintainer / Institute |
Description |
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Taranta |
Yimeng Li / MAX IV Laboratory |
Web Front End to Tango with no-code Dashboard, synoptic, … |
Matteo Canzari / INAF |
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Pogo |
Damien Lacoste / ESRF |
Code generator for tango device server, to help get started |
when writing device servers |
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TangoDatabase |
Thomas Braun / byte physics |
The database server using MariaDB/MySQL |
Graziano Scalamera / Elettra |
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TangoTest |
Thomas Braun / byte physics |
Famous device server for testing |
cppTango |
Reynald Bourtembourg / ESRF |
C++ implementation of Tango |
Damien Lacoste / ESRF |
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Thomas Juerges / SKAO |
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Thomas Braun / byte physics |
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Thomas Ives / OSL |
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PyTango |
Anton Joubert / MAX IV Laboratory |
Python binding for Tango |
Yury Matveyev / DESY |
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ITango |
Benjamin Bertrand / MAX IV Laboratory |
IPython extension for PyTango |
dsconfig |
Johan Forsberg / MAX IV Laboratory |
Tango configuration management tools |
Benjamin Bertrand / MAX IV Laboratory |
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tango-admin |
Thomas Braun / byte physics |
Commandline tool for various tango admin tasks |
Thomas Juerges / SKAO |
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TangoSourceDistribution |
Thomas Braun / byte physics |
Integrated package of various tango tools |
ATK |
Jean-Luc Pons / ESRF |
Java Application Toolkit |
Jive |
Jean-Luc Pons / ESRF |
Tango Database Browser GUI |
Starter |
Nicolas Tappret / ESRF |
device server to start/stop Tango device servers |
Astor |
Nicolas Tappret / ESRF |
Graphical Tango control system administration tool |
ATKPanel |
Jean-Luc Pons / ESRF |
Generic Java GUI to interact with a Tango device |
Nicolas Tappret / ESRF |
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jdraw |
Jean-Luc Pons / ESRF |
Synoptic drawing tool (part of ATK project) |
Tango Access Control |
Nicolas Tappret / ESRF |
Access control device server for Tango |
C Language binding |
Jens Meyer / ESRF |
Tango C binding |
Taurus |
Oriol Vallcorba / ALBA |
Python Qt GUI framework based on PyTango for device |
Benjamin Bertrand / MAX IV Laboratory |
monitoring and control |
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Arturo Hoffstadt / ESO |
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Sardana |
Oriol Vallcorba / ALBA |
Experiment control toolkit based on PyTango and Taurus for |
Johan Forsberg / MAX IV Laboratory |
device orchestration and data acquisition |
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Teresa Nuñez / DESY |
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Michal Piekarski / SOLARIS |
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fandango |
Sergi Rubio Manrique / ALBA |
Python Device Servers and CLI utilities library |
panic |
Sergi Rubio Manrique / ALBA |
Alarm System based on PyTango (Device Server and Qt GUI) |
HDB++ |
Damien Lacoste / ESRF |
High Performance Archiving System for Tango |
Reynald Bourtembourg / ESRF |
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Graziano Scalamera / Elettra |
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Sergi Rubio Manrique / ALBA |
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Johan Forsberg / MAX IV Laboratory |
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pyhdbpp |
Sergi Rubio Manrique / ALBA |
python client for hdb++ (backend agnostic) |
Jose Ramos / ALBA |
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Damien Lacoste / ESRF |