I finished copying over the current autolocker bash script functionality into a python script which runs using a simple configuration yaml file. To run this script, one needs to ssh into optimus and :

That's it. To check out running docker processes, one can:

And to shut down this particular script, in the same directory, one can

If the docker image requires to be rebuild in future, go to the directory where Dockerfile is present and run:

I had to add PyYAML package in the pyepics docker image already present on docker hub, thanks to Andrew.

For now, I have disabled the MCautolocker service on Megatron. To start it back again, one would need to ssh into megatron and do following:

Let's see for a day how this new script does. I've left PSL shutter open and autolocker engaged.

To do: Fix the C1:IFO-STATE epics channel definition so that it takes its bits from separate lock status channels instead of scripts writign the whole word arbitrarily.