Experimental Physics and
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What is the complete output if you run the “caget -#10” and “camonitor -#10” on the ArrayData?  Do they show an INVALID alarm?  It could be that CSS-BOY will not display the data if the record is in INVALID alarm while ImageJ will.

 

Mark

 

 

From: Phil Atkin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 10:54 AM
To: Mark Rivers; Hartman, Steven M.
Cc: [email protected] list
Subject: Re: Show areaDetector image with BOY IntensityGraph

 

I tried setting those environment values before CS-Studio is started, but actually it seems to make no difference.

Looking more carefully at what "Probe" within CS-Studio shows, I notice:

• It correctly shows 'simple' PVs from my IOC
• If I specify an erroneous PV name, it shows "UNDEFINED - Disconnected"
• When I correctly specify my array name, it shows "INVALID - No value"

What might cause the "INVALID" status, when the ImageJ plugin and caget can both read the data?

Phil

On 03/02/2016 16:31, Mark Rivers wrote:

Those settings need to be in effect for any client running on the same machine as the IOC if the machine has 2 NICs.

 

Mark

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Atkin
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 10:29 AM
To: Hartman, Steven M.
Cc: [email protected] list
Subject: Re: Show areaDetector image with BOY IntensityGraph

 

Thanks Steven,

max_array_bytes should be OK.  The PV settings look OK.

Probe can't see the array - so that's quite diagnostic.
caget can report the values in the array, but also reports "Identical process variable names on multiple servers" - I'd forgotten about this.  When I start the IOC I do:

set EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO
set EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=192.168.1.255

... and if I run caget with these settings, I no longer see the warning.

CSS is running on the same (Windows) machine as the IOC.  Do I need to configure it in a similar way, perhaps?

Regards,

Phil

On 03/02/2016 16:08, Hartman, Steven M. wrote:

On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Phil Atkin <[email protected]> wrote:

CSS-BOY is displaying my camera control screens correctly, and my camera reacts accordingly.  It's delivering images, because I can see them in the ImageJ display or through caget; I just can't see them on the Intensity Graph widget.  Not with my own screen and not with Tomas', either.  Tomas’ screen does show a couple of the camera properties that are compatible with my camera - but the Intensity Graph widgets just show 'No data'.

Possible problems include incorrectly specifying the PV for the array data in the IntensityGraph configuration, or too small of max_array_bytes for the array in the CS-Studio preferences.

Try looking at your *:ArrayData PV using another CSS tool such as Probe (which will show you the connection status, time stamp and the first few elements of the array). Also try a right-click on the widget to select “Show PV Info” to confirm the ArrayData PV is the same as ImageJ is using. 

 

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