Nomad

The conditions need to have more "power": one needs to be able to access parameters directly, and in the watchdog thing, on top of that, one needs to give a notion of time, e.g., send a warning only if a certain state is reached since more than x minutes or so

I made a script which goes well into a for loop in the launchpad but which would run far better in backgroyund as a watchdog to manage the coldvalve during ramped cooling of the cryostat. The module could be far easier if we had the above enquiring of parameters -- and it would be great to run it at a certain frequency in background (remember George's "dials"???!)