archiveview

archiveview plots EPICS PVs against time. History comes from an EPICS Archiver Appliance and live values come from Channel Access or PV Access, joined into one line per PV. It is written in Rust with egui, in the style of bobview.

It covers what most people use the Phoebus Data Browser for, with a much smaller interface. The plot fills the window, a slim bar holds search and the time range, and everything else is direct manipulation: drag to pan, scroll to zoom, hover to read values. See Scope, and how it differs from the Data Browser.

Learning: acquiring skills

Working: applying skills

Practical: doing

Theoretical: knowing

📚 Tutorials learning-oriented

New to archiveview? Install it, start the mock archiver and a simulated beamline, and plot your first PVs.

🧭 How-to guides goal-oriented

Practical steps: connect to your archiver and IOCs, find PVs, save views, take snapshots, embed the plot.

💡 Explanations understanding-oriented

Background and design: what archiveview sets out to do and how archive and live data become one plot.

📖 Reference information-oriented

Command-line options, gestures and keys, config files, the archiver API, the mock archiver and the Rust API.

The Rust API docs for the workspace's crates are published alongside this book.

The docs follow the Diátaxis framework: four kinds of page for four needs, learning, doing, understanding and looking things up.