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VMXm grid scans: Current status

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Description

There is a lengthy stack of unmerged PR's with all the required for VMXm grid scans - the latestone is [here](https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/mx-bluesky/pull/1653). VMXm's live GDA has some hacky code to optionally run gridscans through BlueAPI. In `/dls_sw/i02-1/software/daq_configuration/domain/domain.properties` there is an option `gda.gridscan.blueapi.enabled`. If this is set to true then BlueAPI will be used for grid scans (after a GDA server restart). BlueAPI is hosted on the beamline cluster and has its configuration [here](https://gitlab.diamond.ac.uk/controls/containers/beamline/i02-1-services/-/tree/main/services/i02-1-blueapi?ref_type=heads).

The code is largely untested and unstable. There are a number of known issues and probably lots of unknown ones.

### Next steps
1. Schedule testing time and run grid scans and try and everything working (incl grid scans). There will likely be lots of little hotfixes needed before anything works
2. Adjust the PR's linked above to address hotfixes
3. Get PR's reviewed + merged then redeploy and test. Repeat this until we have something stable.

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