Tools to plot Trigger Primitive object

[adam-abed-abud]

At the moment only a simple python application is available to plot TPStream data. This needs to be improved.
First, there is a need to have a tool that unpacks TP stream data (currently only a test application in trigger is available).
The plotting application should be customizable to provide (if available) a channel map in order to distinguish the U,V,Z planes.

[adam-abed-abud]

Hi Dario, thanks for preparing the branch.

Here are a few comments:

-- the location of the app should be in scripts/ not in apps/. Check how this is done in the develop branch.
-- Give the possibility to the user of providing as an input either an hdf5 file to be extracted OR a txt file with the data already parsed
-- All the argument should have a "-" instead of "_". Example: --input_file should be --input-file
-- What is the benefit of storing the output numpy array?
-- Make sure that an error is thrown if matplotlib is not available
-- When you parse the output TPs in txt. Are they all time ordered correctly?
-- img_groups is not an ideal name for its functionality.
-- In the DAQ we do not write names and dates in the code. Github takes care of that. I would remove this:

File name: main.py
Author: Dario Pullia
Date created: 29/09/2023

-- I suggest to use the following tool as a starting point for the plotting: https://github.com/DUNE-DAQ/fdreadoutlibs/blob/develop/scripts/plot_trigprim_output_data.py. The output I obtained using data from the 50l setup does not make much sense. Can you check again and compare it with the above tool?

[nilic123]

@aeoranday @ShyamB97 @xinyue-uoft we have discussed some issues related to this -- do you think this ticket is still relevant? It seems with the TPG monitoring metrics we have the capability if we want to monitor TPG metrics.