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Subject: Re: {ASYN} How to detect autoconnect or disconnect
From: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:02:51 +0000
Hi Matic,


>  Is there a way to specify a callback which gets called when reconnect is successful?


Yes, look at the definition of asynManager here:

https://epics.anl.gov/modules/soft/asyn/R4-34/asynDriver.html

It defines:
      typedef void (*exceptionCallback)(asynUser *pasynUser,asynException exception);
and
      pasynManager->exceptionCallbackAdd().

You will get a callback whenever an exception occurs.  Your callback needs to test what type of exception it is.  You are interested in asynExceptionConnect, and you need to call pasynManager->isConnected() to determine if it is a connect or disconnect callback.

You can look at asyn/asynRecord/asynRecord.c to see an example of using pasynManager->exceptionCallbackAdd().

>  pasynManager->isConnected() seems to be always 1 for me, even after few minutes when the device is off.

That is a function of the underlying OS.  For drvAsynIPPort isConnected()=No means that the OS has closed the socket.  On Linux this can take quite a long time.  On Windows it is faster.  I assume one can change these settings by I have not tried to do that.

You should consider using the asynSetOption(port, 0, "disconnectOnReadTimeout", "Y")

This will cause the port to disconnect when there is a read timeout.  If you use exceptionCallbackAdd() then you will get a callback each time a read operation to the device times out.  Your callback can then try to reconnect, and if successful send the initialization string.

Mark


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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {ASYN} How to detect autoconnect or disconnect

Hi,

I have a device to which I must send the configuration of the data format in which I want the data to be sent to me when the connection is established otherwise all commands are ignored. Which represents a problem when a device is power-cycled and IOC keep running.

Basically, I'm between two options but none of them work for me somehow:

Autoconnect is ON: I'm not getting any data from the device as configuration was not send when reconnect happened. Is there a way to specify a callback which gets called when reconnect is successful?

Autoconnect is OFF: How to detect that device was lost to call connect() function again (and send configuration)? pasynManager->isConnected() seems to be always 1 for me, even after few minutes when the device is off.

I'm using asyn version 4-31.

Thank you,
Matic


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