Re: read RVB and VAL don't match when moving smarAct motors without encoders

["Peterson, Kevin M. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Juliane,

The MCS and MCS2 controllers have different command sets. That command won't work with the MCS controller.

Kevin

On Nov 13, 2020 1:45 AM, Juliane Reinhardt <jreinhardt at lbl.gov> wrote:

Hi Kevin,

smarAct does not support the EPICS driver, they did however mention the community-developed drivers that can be found on github. I had a look into this one: https://github.com/epics-motor/motorSmarAct/blob/master/smarActApp/src/smarActMCS2MotorDriver.cpp and found the variable theoryPosition that reads :CHAN%d:POS:TARG

Is that the required command to query a motor without an encoder? Then I could try to build a new IOC based on this package.

Thanks,
Juliane