Re: EPICS/BluIce gateways

[Wayne Lewis <wayne.lewis@synchrotron.vic.gov.au>]

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

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