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"Peterson, Kevin M. via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:12:39 +0000

Here is info from Steffen Rau about limitations of the E-816:

“Compared to current GCS2 devices from PI,  E-816 has  limited 
functionality. The basic commands (e.g. to position a stage and read the 
sensors) are the same. But E-816 is an interface module and not a 
digital controller, therefor many other features are not available for 
the E-816 (e.g. acceleration, velocity, travel range, 
homing/referencing). So it cannot really be “integrated” into the PI 
GCS2 code but will need its separate class and most of the 
implementations will simply be empty.”

I've closed the github issue and will continue to recommend that people 
use the E-816 support from motorPI (https://github.com/epics-motor/motorPI).

Kevin

On 9/20/19 2:32 AM, Sintschuk, Michael wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> thanks for the help! The old driver is working fine for me, so I stay with it for now.
> However if there will be a E-816 compatible EPICS PIGCS2 driver in future, I would change to it.
> 
> Michael

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