Communicating from the beamline with Slack

Section Topic

This documents how to post text and images to Slack within Bluesky plans.

Lesson

Obtain Slack development keys and uploader tokens. Post images and text to Slack using Bluesky. This incorporates readily into Bluesky measurement plans. At BMM, these tools are used to inform staff and users as XAS scans and other time consuming chores are started and finished.

Beamline

BMM

Link to source code

logging.py

Section author

Bruce Ravel (bravel@bnl.gov)

Contents:

• Posting a text message to Slack
• Posting an image to Slack