Re: saving samples

[Miguel Bordalo <miguel.b.fernandes@gmail.com>]

in your solution with calc. it is suppose that the INPA is the same as INPB ?  So that as u wrtore it enables you to store the last 2 samples of a given pv, is that correct?
also can you explain me the CP meaning in :   field(INPA, "input CP")

also what do you sugegst if i only need to save the last sample? If the pv i want to stores samples from is actually a calc by it selft i could even store the last sample in itselft as the way you showed. right?

Ty

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Miguel Bordalo

Licenciado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
Instituto Superior Técnico

miguel.b.fernandes@gmail.com

On 13 June 2017 at 17:49, Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

The compress record type that comes with Base can save a buffer of old
values (when its ALG field set to Circular Buffer). The documentation
for that record type is at
  https://wiki-ext.aps.anl.gov/epics/index.php/RRM_3-14_Compression

Getting out a specific older value from its array is easy if you're
running Base-3.15.x because you can use a subarray server-side filter to
extract the last-but-one or last-but-two value from the array say.

However instead of learning about those features there is a simpler way
using a single CALC record which is probably much easier to understand:

record(calc, "old-data") {
  field(INPA, "input CP")
  field(CALC, "C;C:=B;B:=A")
}

Whenever the "input" record reads a new input value it triggers the calc
record to process, which reads the new value into A. The calculation
processing then sets the VAL field to the previous C, then moves the
previous B into C and the new A into B. You can extend the chain as
necessary through D..L, and can also read intermediate values from the B
and/or C fields of the record.

- Andrew

On 06/13/2017 11:06 AM, Miguel Bordalo wrote:
> save in another PV the last sample (scalar) (or more samples) of other
> PV that is updated periodically.
> this is for example: i have the temperature of a room being updated
> periodically. I want another PV to act as a buffer that stores the last
> two samples of the room's temperature . And i want to be able to acess
> them individually of course.
> Thanks!
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Miguel Bordalo*
>
> Licenciado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
> Instituto Superior Técnico
>
> miguel.b.fernandes@gmail.com <mailto:miguel.b.fernandes@gmail.com>
>
>
> On 13 June 2017 at 16:01, Ralph Lange <ralph.lange@gmx.de
> <mailto:ralph.lange@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     Please clarify a bit further.
>
>     What do you mean by "save"?
>
>         Write to a file? Store in an archiver? Write to another record?
>
>     What kind of PV?
>
>         Scalar or array data?
>
>         If array: does "last" mean last array in time, or last element
>         in array?
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     ~Ralph
>
>
>     On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Miguel
>     <miguel.b.fernandes@gmail.com <mailto:miguel.b.fernandes@gmail.com>>

>     wrote:
>
>         What is the easiest way to save periodicaly the last sample (or
>         last 2/3 samples) of a certain PV ?
>
>         ty
>
>
>

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