To test the new h1digivideo4 server we moved four production cameras from servers running the old software to the new server. This required changes to the camera overview MEDM, which up to this time had been hand edited.

I took this opportunity to write a python program to generate the camera overview MEDM (see attached).

The main changes are:

. cameras are sorted alphabetically by name, not by camera number.

. cameras are not grouped by the server machine they run on.

. camera data is stored in a yaml database. Camera details can be viewed by pressing the INFO buttons.

. process control buttons are provided for each camera (VID0 = h1digivideo0, etc). Servers running the new code have green text (VID3 and VID4)

SITEMAP.adl has been upgraded to use the new overview. To open the old overview there is a "Traditional Overview" button provided in the bottom right corner.

Paths for the generator code and the yaml database file are shown at the bottom of the window.