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Subject: Re: EDM
From: Zenon Szalata <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 10:30:15 -0700
Hi Andrew,
In fact that is exactly what I am doing. Here is a brief description what I am trying to do.

The hardware registers are read/write.
When the IOC starts, the register has some value previously set.
After IOC init, I issue a series of dbpf commands, one for each register.
These trigger processing a record that reads the register.
After the register is read, the read value is put into the output record with NPP. These are Beckhoff bus terminal records which are a bit complicated to read from and especially to write to. To have it work correctly, I need to insert a 0.2 second delay between dbpf commands. I decided to use NPP because the output record, although it is soft channel, when processed will result in the value being written back to the register, which should be harmless, but I wanted to avoid it, because significantly more delay would be needed.

If this is really the cause of my difficulty, I will think how to modify the records such that the target output record gets the value and gets processed and somehow writing back to the register will be suppressed. I was trying to avoid the extra complication.
Thanks Andrew,
Zen

On 05/10/13 09:31, Andrew Johnson wrote:
Hi Zenon,

On 2013-05-10 Zenon Szalata wrote:
zms@esaanal2 $ caput ESA:LO:SC:2531-21:CH1:MAXV-WR:DATA 100
Old : ESA:LO:SC:2531-21:CH1:MAXV-WR:DATA 50
New : ESA:LO:SC:2531-21:CH1:MAXV-WR:DATA 100

and the Text Control immediately showed the new value.  From now on it
will work just fine until the IOC is restarted.
I suspect that part of the problem is how I am initializing these Text
Control widgets.  At this point I am still struggling with the fact that
after the IOC is started, the PV in question has the correct value which
comes from a register in the hardware and is represented incorrectly in
the EDM Text Control widget.
Is something writing this value directly to the record's VAL field after
iocInit but without processing the record?  Since the DTYP said "Soft Channel"
it didn't occur to me that something else might be modifying the fields
directly, which would explain the issue (it shouldn't be doing that).

- Andrew


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