Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jörn Dreyer <[email protected]> · Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:50:49 +0200

Hi Mark,

meanwhile I managed to get it working somehow. I Have to unplug the camera 
sometimes after start of the IOC because it gets a message from 
PicamAdvanced_DiscoverCameras() that the camera was lost. But besides that 
everything seems to work, at least with PICam library version 5.2.1. The newer 
version (5.3.3) does not work. It fails to open the camera! I'm in contact 
with Princeton Instruments about this issue. It must be some access right not 
being set properly for a device file on my system. By The way, I noticed some 
minor mistakes in the driver(Missing parameters, asynPrint parameters missing, 
wrong error message etc.). I will send in a patch once the code has proven to 
work.

Regards,

Jörn

Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2018, 13:23:40 CEST schrieb Mark Rivers:
> Hi Jörn,
> 
> 
> I don't know anyone using PICam on Linux with areaDetector, but hopefully
> someone is, and can help you.
> 
> 
> If you get stuck then I do have a lot of experience controlling PIXIS
> cameras with areaDetector using the ADLightField driver on Windows.  That
> is working reliably for us.
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on
> behalf of Jörn Dreyer <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 1:46
> AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: AreaDetector ADPICam driver question
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently in the process of setting up the areaDetector driver for a
> PrincetonInstruments PIXIS detector using Linux.
> I have downloaded the latest PICam SDK from Princetons FTP server. But
> Failed to get it working.
> Has anybody done that before? Which version was used under Windows for the
> development?
> I have tested version 5.2.1 and 5.3.3. The older version reports
> 
> Camera Lost: PIXIS-XF: 2048B - device 0x0
> 
> While the newer one fails already at opening of the camera with
> 
> "Unknow error"!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jörn

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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