Re: Attocube AMC300 driver?

[Kevin Peterson via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Keenan,

Are the lua scripts that have been written available on github?  If not 
I propose adding them to the Lua ScriptMotor repo:
  https://github.com/epics-motor/motorScriptMotor

Kevin

P.S. The link is for everyone else; I know you know where the script 
motor support lives.

On 7/16/21 6:00 PM, Lang, Keenan C. via Tech-talk wrote:
> Pete,
>
> I did just a quick set up of a scientist's AMC100, which should use the 
> same json REST api.
> However, it's using the scriptable motor driver 
> (https://github.com/epics-motor/motorScriptMotor 
> <https://github.com/epics-motor/motorScriptMotor>) due to me not wanting 
> to deal with parsing a bunch of JSON in c/c++. So you'll need the master 
> branch of that motor module and to build motor against the lua epics 
> module (https://github.com/epics-modules/lua 
> <https://github.com/epics-modules/lua>).
> If you still would want to use it, I have the script here: 
> https://github.com/keenanlang/Lua-Scripts/blob/master/motors/AMC100.lua 
> <https://github.com/keenanlang/Lua-Scripts/blob/master/motors/AMC100.lua>
> You'll also need to grab json.lua from here: 
> https://github.com/rxi/json.lua <https://github.com/rxi/json.lua> (put 
> it in your working directory or edit line 3 of AMC100.lua to add the 
> path to the package search path)
> Then the startup command calls are:
>
>       drvAsynIPPortConfigure("AMC100-1_IP", "<INSERT IP HERE>:9090", 0,0,0)
>       ScriptControllerConfig("AMC100-1", 2, "scripts/AMC100.lua", 
> "PORT=AMC100-1_IP")
>
> The support assumes a motor that has an encoder. If you're dealing with 
> open loop steppers, it should just be a matter of switching the api 
> method names in the move and poll functions (lines 46 and 79).
>
> Or, at the very least, since the scriptable motor is pretty much 1-to-1 
> compared to a standard model 3 driver, it shouldn't be too bad to 
> convert the logic to a c++ driver using https://github.com/nlohmann/json 
> <https://github.com/nlohmann/json> .
>
> Keenan Lang