Thanks ralph for the detailed explanation. I have also tried with 3.15.x base. The method u said (changing the units with caputs) is also working in my platform. But for my requirement, I am changing the units in device support (using asyn). below are the code snippets for it in the device support C file (devAppname.c):
aiRecord *precord = (aiRecord*)pgpibDpvt->precord; precord->hopr =1000.0; sprintf(precord->egu,"nA");
These changes are actually reflected in the process variables at runtime but doesn't generate updates (atleast not been detected by camonitor -m p). Shantonu Sahoo वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center Ph: (033) 23182300
[email protected] wrote: -----To: EPICS Tech-Talk < [email protected]> From: Ralph Lange Sent by: [email protected] Date: 07/04/2016 12:57PM Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY
OK, here's how it should work: On the IOC side I have a file test.db that only contains a minimal ai record: record(ai,"foo") { } and I am running this in a 3.15 'softIoc -d test.db'. On the client side I am running camonitor in the background, and then do 'caput's to see if I get updates. First test: without setting the mask to DBE_PROPERTY, changing the units should not send monitor updates. ~ $ camonitor foo & [1] 11517 ~ $ foo <undefined> 0 UDF INVALID ~ $ caput foo.EGU V Old : foo.EGU New : foo.EGU V ~ $ caput foo.EGU A Old : foo.EGU V New : foo.EGU A Second test: setting the event mask to DBE_PROPERTY, changing the units should send monitor updates. ~ $ camonitor -m p foo & [1] 11718 ~ $ foo <undefined> 0 UDF INVALID ~ $ caput foo.EGU V Old : foo.EGU New : foo.EGU V foo <undefined> 0 UDF INVALID ~ $ caput foo.EGU A Old : foo.EGU V New : foo.EGU A foo <undefined> 0 UDF INVALID This is the expected and correct behavior. You are missing that, as I wrote in my mail of June 07 (see below), the event type flag DBE_PROPERTY was introduced in EPICS 3.14.11, but proper support for the EPICS records is only available in the EPICS 3.15 series. Applied to your case, this means that to get updates for changes to the EGU field, the IOC has to use Base 3.15 (like my example above). Cheers, ~Ralph On 04/07/2016 08:45, Shantonu Sahoo wrote: Thanks for the support. But I am stuck at the first step that you suggested. I could not get the property change updates using 'camonitor -m p' on the command line when I change the units. I am using EPICS base 3.14.12.5. I guess DBE_PROPERTY was introduced in 3.14.11, so it should work with 3.14.12.5. Am I missing out something? Shantonu Sahoo वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center Ph: (033) 23182300 [email protected] wrote: ----- To: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]> From: "Kasemir, Kay" Sent by: [email protected] Date: 06/07/2016 10:21PM Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY Hello: The support for DBE_PROPERTY has been added to CS-Studio some time ago, but that was at a time when the Channel Access gateway didn't support it, and on the IOC side basically only the 'enumeration' labels of respective record types (bi, bo, mbbi, mbbo) sent out DBE_PROPERTY updates. What's happening is that the CA client creates two subscriptions: One for value updates, and one for property updates. If you have older IOCs or CA gateways, they won't understand the second subscription, so the client gets one error per channel from those refused subscriptions. The DBE_PROPERTY feature has thus not been used a lot, and I must admit I've basically forgotten about it since we can't universally use it in our local setup (older IOCs, ..). Still, fundamentally the support should be there. Check with 'camonitor' on the command line, using the "-m p" option to monitor property changes, so assert that your record indeed sends updates when you change the units. Then use a recent version of CSS, something with 4.2.x as a version number. Its "diirt PVManager" is unfortunately configured via files outside of CSS. In Edit/Preferences, look for CSS Core, Diirt preferences. You specify a Diirt configuration directory that needs to contain files like the ones found here: https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/org.csstudio.sns/tree/master/features/org.csstudio.sns.feature.snscore/rootfiles/diirt Note the file datasources/ca/ca.xml, it contains a setting `dbePropertySupported` that defaults to false. You need to set that to 'true'. Now tools that use the "diirt PVManager" should receive monitors for property changes. This includes BOY as long as you have the Edit, Preferences, CSS Applications, Display, BOY, OPI Runtime setting for "PV Connection layer" set to "pvmanager". If it doesn't work, we should create an issue ticket on https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/cs-studio/issues to continue the discussion there. Thanks, Kay From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Ralph Lange <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 8:04 AM To: EPICS Tech-Talk Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY Dear Shantonu, The new Channel Access event type flag DBE_PROPERTY was introduced in EPICS 3.14.11, but proper support for the EPICS records is only available in the EPICS 3.15 series. I do not have a good idea about how CS-Studio, BOY and CAJ are supporting this feature. I was prompting you for the versions, hoping that one of the CS-Studio people would pick your question up. (With the version numbers, they should be able to give an answer.) Sorry... ~Ralph On 07/06/2016 13:23, Shantonu Sahoo wrote: Dear Ralph, Can you tell me the exact versions of EPICS base, CSS and CAJ in which this feature is incorporated. Shantonu Sahoo वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center Ph: (033) 23182300 [email protected] wrote: ----- To: Ralph Lange <[email protected]> From: Shantonu Sahoo Sent by: [email protected] Date: 06/06/2016 03:27PM Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY I am using EPICS base-3.14.12.5, CS-Studio 4.1.4 , Java Utilities 3.2.0. I am not sure about the version of CAJ. I am not using EPICS CA Gateway. Shantonu Sahoo वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center Ph: (033) 23182300 -----Ralph Lange <[email protected]> wrote: ----- To: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]> From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]> Date: 06/06/2016 02:19PM Cc: Shantonu Sahoo <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problem in updating EGU field in CSS-BOY A feature to allow such updates of metadata has been added to EPICS Base and the Channel Access protocol recently. What versions of EPICS Base (your IOC), CS-Studio (your client) and CAJ (the Java CA client library inside CS-Studio) are you using? Is there an EPICS CA Gateway involved? (If yes, what version?) Thanks, ~Ralph On 06/06/2016 10:29, Shantonu Sahoo wrote: I am using CSS-BOY to display a process variable using "Text Update". I have checked the "Show Units" property. So, in addition to the VALue, it displays the string that is specified in the EGU field of the record. But, in the runtime, if the EGU field changes, it is not updated in the OPI until I do "Refresh OPI". In contrary, the VALue is updated smoothly. Shantonu Sahoo वैज्ञानिक अधिकारी / Scientific Officer कंप्यूटर एवं सूचना वर्ग / Computer and Informatics Group परिवर्ती ऊर्जा साइक्लोट्रॉन केन्द्र / Variable Energy Cyclotron Center Ph: (033) 23182300
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