Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Kirchman, Jeff via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Mon, 5 Aug 2019 13:43:38 +0000

Mark,
A difference in ENV variables was my thought as well.  But the scientist 
told us that he could use a unix system call inside spec to caget the 
Lambda PVs.

And he also says this particular Linux host is able to access all other 
PVs such as the storage ring or other devices.

-Jeff

On 8/5/2019 7:11 AM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi Nino,
>
> Is there perhaps a script that is run to start spec that is setting some EPICS_CA... environment variables? I've been told that there are no such variables set in the Linux shell running caget.
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> spec can connect to another areaDetector IOC (ADPilatus) correct?
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> Can medm and python connect to the ADLambda IOC?
>
> Mark
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>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 5, 2019, at 12:55 AM, Miceli, Antonino via Tech-talk <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We have an EPICS areadetector soft IOC (AD core 3.6) running on a Debian PC for a Lambda detector. We are trying to control with spec, but spec's epics_caget commands return errors (e.g., "Not Connected"). When we run caget from the PC running spec, it works fine.
>
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> Any suggestions? I know this is not a spec mailing list, but I figure this is the next best thing!
>
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> Thanks,
>
> Nino
>

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