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Wayne Lewis <[email protected]> · Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:31:41 +1100

Hi Emmanuel,
We are using BluIce with EPICS on the Protein Crystallography beamline
at the Australian Synchrotron.
EPICS is used for all of the beamline (photon delivery system) controls,
as well as a set of slits in the endstation. The "epicsgw" package
supplied with the BluIce/DCSS system is used for communication between
BluIce/DCSS and EPICS.
We use the SSRL DHSs (device drivers) for a number of other devices on
the beamline, including the detector, sample mounting robot and the
goniometer.
In effect, the EPICS system is treated as another DCSS "device". BluIce
can read values from the EPICS system (such as mono energy or slit
opening) and BluIce can also command changes to these values, which are
then implemented by EPICS.
I am not aware of a gateway that allows EPICS to read information from
the BluIce/DCSS system.
Cheers,
Wayne

Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:

Hello again,
I was wondering if anyone of you is using BluIce with EPICS.
BluIce is another control software used by end-user station and
developed at SLAC/SSRL.
http://smb.slac.stanford.edu/research/developments/blu-ice/
There is a BluIce to EPICS gateway.

I was wondering if there is such a thing as a EPICS to BLuIce/DCSS

gateway. 
Talk to you soon,
--
Emmanuel

--
Wayne Lewis
Beamlines Control Systems Engineer
Australian Synchrotron Project
800 Blackburn Road
Clayton VIC 3168
Phone: +61 3 8540 4161
Fax:   +61 3 8540 4200
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