Re: detecting remote PV disconnect (asyn)

[Hinko Kocevar via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Michael, 

>> Yes LAB-
>> EVR-000:EvtECnt-I.TIME is on EVR IOC. Using MS flag there makes me think that alarm severity would be propagated to the record holding TSEL (I have never done this before so I might be wrong on this assumption).

> Normally yes, but .TIME is handled as a special case, so I wouldn't be surprised
> if this didn't work.  I'd recommend using an additional longin record to subscript
> to the value of the event Cnt-I PV.  Then forward link from this to your records.

I'm after the timestamp of the Cnt-I record. I'm not sure I understand how to go about and implement your proposal.

I do have some other EVR PVs I want to tap into from my DAQ IOC and for those I'm looking at .VAL field. I'll see if there is something different in that case.

Thanks,
//hinko