Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Sobhani, Bayan" <[email protected]> · Fri, 11 May 2018 21:58:11 +0000

Very valuable feedback, thank you Zachary. To answer your questions:

1) It believe so. It has been a few months, but I do not remember leaving any feature out. Additionally, it has some useful features which the old MCS motor record does not have, such as limit switch status. 

2) At the time I started working on this, only the SDK commands were documented. Later upon request, the vendor provided me a version of the manual with ascii commands, but I was already almost finished by then. Since the logic is already implemented it should be straightforward to translate the SDK motor record to ascii and I may do it in the next 1 or 2 weeks if I have time and no one beats me to it. Some very old versions of the GNU C library cannot compile the files that use the MCS2 SDK.

3) Thanks for pointing this out. I believe it is fixed now.

4) I am not sure it I am high enough caliber for this.

Alex
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From: Lentz, Zachary L [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 6:18 PM
To: Sobhani, Bayan; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Smaract MCS2 Motor Record

Hi Alex,

This looks promising, thank you for sharing. A couple of questions:

  1.  The old MCS drivers supported a specific subset of MCS and motor record features. Does this support a similar subset?
  2.  Any reason why you opted to link against the MCS2 SDK instead of talking over serial?
  3.  It looks an IP and port is being hard-coded in the driver. Do you plan to generalize this? Are there other things that are hard-coded?
  4.  Do you plan to submit this for the main motor record?

-Zachary
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From: Sobhani, Bayan <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 6:39:22 AM
To: Lentz, Zachary L; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Smaract MCS2 Motor Record

Hi Zachary,

Yes, we have an MCS2 IOC that we have been using without issue for the last few months at NSLS2:

SmarAct MCS2 IOC: https://github.com/bsobhani/smaract-mcs2

SmarAct MCS2 Motor Record: https://github.com/bsobhani/motor-mcs2

So far it has been tested on Debian 8 machines. Let me know if you run into any problems.

Alex

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lentz, Zachary L
Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 6:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Smaract MCS2 Motor Record

Is anyone developing motor record support for the SmarAct MCS2 controller? It unfortunately has a completely different command set than their previous MCS controller. We're looking to use these for some projects at SLAC.

Thanks,

Zachary Lentz

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System