Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:34:45 +0100

Am Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:06:46 -0800
schrieb Rolf Keitel via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>:

Hello Rolf,

This works, thanks.
However, now I wonder how to properly change these settings while running.
When I write a different value (using caput) into .INPA, this doesn't get
picked up by .A. I can write to .A directly, but I had actually expected
this to be read from .INPA on each cycle. Somehow it feels wrong to have .A
and .INPA not in sync.

cu
  Gerrit

> Hi Gerrit,
> 
> You cannot point a link field at another link field.
> 
> If you set in the second record
> 
> field (INPA, "$(CHAN)_DUTY_CYC.A")
> 
> you should get what you want. - rolf -
> 
> On 2023-11-22 8:07 a.m., Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk wrote:
> > Am Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:23:29 +0100
> > schrieb Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk<tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>:
> >  
> >>> You need to put PP at the end of your OUT link to force the second
> >>> record to process.  
> >> Yes, that was the mssing bit. Thanks to both of you for pointing this
> >> out to me.  
> > Last question for today (hopefully). I have these records now:
> >
> > ---
> > record (calcout, "$(CHAN)_DUTY_CYC") {
> >    field (DESC, "duty cycled output")
> >    field (VAL,  "10") # 1st cycle time
> >    field (INPA, "10") # cycle time
> >    field (CALC, "VAL-1")
> >    field (OUT, "$(CHAN)_DUTY_RESET PP")
> >    field (OOPT, "Transition To Zero")
> >    field (SCAN, "1 second")
> > }
> >
> > record (calcout, "$(CHAN)_DUTY_RESET") {
> >    field (DESC, "reset cycle counter")
> >    field (VAL, "11")
> >    field (INPA, "$(CHAN)_DUTY_CYC.INPA")
> >    field (CALC, "A")
> >    field (OUT, "$(CHAN)_DUTY_CYC")
> >    field (SCAN, "Passive")
> > }
> > ---
> >
> > The second record gets processed when the counter in the first record
> > reaches zero. However, it only resets the counter as desired when the
> > INPA field in the second record is defined constant (i.e., INPA, "10"
> > directly in the second record).
> > My original idea as written above was to get the INPA field of the
> > second record from the INPA field of the first record. However, this
> > does not work. camonitor reports this as "LINK INVALID" although I can
> > use caget on the reported link just fine (and get the correct value).
> > Again, this feels like I'm missing a simple thing...
> >
> >
> > cu
> >    Gerrit  

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System