Craver - An app to easily see the LHCb control panel
Craver is a Flutter app for Android and iOS that gives anyone with a CERN account access to a miniature version of the LHCb control panel. In addition, it shows the shifter logbook and statuses of various servers. I developed this app with some backend and tecnical help from my supervisor during a three month summer job at CERN.
What purpose does Craver fill?
The real controll panel for the LHCb
If researchers at the LHCb wanted to know what was going on, they ofted needed to log into this controll panel. This requires some initial setup and can only be accessed through pc, not phone. In adittion, the control panel gives you more control than you might want to have. There have been small accidents where a user has accidently hit buttons they should not have.
Craver is a read only, phone friendly and gives you access to a logbook where details are posted as well.
Project as a whole
I am very happy with how the project turned out. There are several changes that I would do next time of course, but there is a lot that I am proud of. This was the first time I had used the Flutter framework, propper authentication and developed a CI/CD setup. All in all, a huge success!