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Subject: Re: Undefined Timestamp on Motor Record
From: "Peterson, Kevin M. via Tech-talk" <[email protected]>
To: Dominic Oram - UKRI STFC <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:26:43 +0000
Dominic,

If the motorStatusCommsError_ is set to 1 on the first poll, long before 
iocInit, and a one is written to MOTOR.PROC after iocInit, does the 
camonitor output show an up-to-date timestamp and the comm invalid status?

Kevin

On 8/15/19 12:16 PM, Dominic Oram - UKRI STFC via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’m in the process of writing a model 3 motor driver using version 6-11 
> of the motor record.
> 
> I have found some unexpected behaviour on initialisation if the driver 
> has no device connected.
> 
> It appears the motor stays in the following state unless a parameter is 
> updated at some point after initialisation (I’m not sure when):
> 
> caget –a MOTOR
> MOTOR        <undefined> 0
> 
> If I have no device connected I set motorStatusCommsError_ to 1 on the 
> first call to poll(). However, because all subsequent calls to poll() do 
> not change any parameters I stay in the above state. I would instead 
> expect to see something like:
> 
> caget –a MOTOR
> MOTOR        2019-08-15 15:57:41.931650 0 COMM INVALID
> 
> as in the undefined timestamp situation it’s not obvious to users that 
> there is a comm error.
> 
> Setting motorStatusCommsError_ to 1 at some time after initialisation 
> does give me the expected state.
> 
> Is this actually expected behaviour? Do other people see something similar?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dominic Oram
> 
> Senior Software Engineer
> 
> Experimental Controls
> 
> ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
> 

References:
Undefined Timestamp on Motor Record Dominic Oram - UKRI STFC via Tech-talk

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