Hi Michael,
Thanks for the quick reply!
Indeed changing the Phoebus settings.ini to have this line gives the correct behavior:
org.phoebus.pv.ca/dbe_property_supported=true
Thanks,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 11:58 AM
To: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: core-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: OPI updates when enum strings/values change
On 5/2/23 09:48, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> At the EPICS Core workshop last week I made a comment that one limitation of Channel Access was that OPI clients are not informed when enum strings or values change, and so OPI displays don’t update to reflect these changes. I said that one needs to close the display and re-open it in order to see the changes.
Firstly, lets talk about how to check this with camonitor. Load up the following test database
> $ cat menu.db
> record(bi, "bi") {
> field(ZNAM, "A")
> field(ONAM, "B")
> }
> $ softIoc -d menu.db
The start camonitor subscribing to DBE_PROPERTY
> $ camonitor -m p bi
> bi <undefined> A UDF INVALID
Then from the IOC shell (or some other means) change ZNAM
> epics> dbpf bi.ZNAM x
This should cause camonitor to print
> bi <undefined> x UDF INVALID
> You said this was because I was using a very old OPI client, i.e. medm. You said that modern clients handle this correctly, by having 2 subscriptions to the PV, one for the value and one for the metadata. You said that Phoebus is one of the clients that handles this correctly.
For reasons of backwards compatibility (what else...) this is not the default behavior.
https://control-system-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/preference_properties.html#pv-ca
I set the following phoebus properties to use "modern" CA features.
> org.phoebus.pv.ca/dbe_property_supported=true
> org.phoebus.pv.ca/variable_length_array=true
> I just tested this with Phoebus. I used the asyn/testAsynPortClient application. In that application when the VerticalGain record is changed the enum choices for the VoltsPerDivSelect and VoltsPerDivSelect_RBV fields are changed.
>
> VerticalGainRecord: https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/f9d492ed58f4bd730cf49ac7feccc201cd2b17b0/testAsynPortDriverApp/Db/testAsynPortDriver.db#L105 <https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/f9d492ed58f4bd730cf49ac7feccc201cd2b17b0/testAsynPortDriverApp/Db/testAsynPortDriver.db#L105>
>
> Code where enum values for VoltsPerDivSelect are changed: https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/f9d492ed58f4bd730cf49ac7feccc201cd2b17b0/testAsynPortDriverApp/src/testAsynPortDriver.cpp#L369 <https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/f9d492ed58f4bd730cf49ac7feccc201cd2b17b0/testAsynPortDriverApp/src/testAsynPortDriver.cpp#L369>
>
> It does callbacks to device support where the record values are changed: https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/f9d492ed58f4bd730cf49ac7feccc201cd2b17b0/asyn/devEpics/devAsynInt32.c#L726 <https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/f9d492ed58f4bd730cf49ac7feccc201cd2b17b0/asyn/devEpics/devAsynInt32.c#L726>
>
> I have converted the medm .adl file for testAsynPortDriver to a Phoebus .bob file: https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/master/testAsynPortDriverApp/op/bob/autoconvert/testAsynPortDriver.bob <https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/master/testAsynPortDriverApp/op/bob/autoconvert/testAsynPortDriver.bob>
>
> When I change the vertical Gain in Phoebus I observe exactly the same thing as in medm. The enum menu choices for VoltsPerDivSelect mbbo and the enum string for the selected VoltsPerDivSelect_RBV do not update automatically. They only update when I close the Phoebus window and re-open it.
>
> I presume the behavior I observe with Phoebus must be due to one of the following 3 reasons:
>
> 1. The asyn code for updating enum values is incorrect.
> 2. The fact that the .bob file is autoconverted from medm rather than created natively in Phoebus is causing the undesired behavior.
> 3. Phoebus cannot in fact update the screen when enum values change.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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