Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello all.

Im implementing the NDTransform plugin for an areaDetector IOC made here and following these documentations for this: https://areadetector.github.io/master/ADCore/NDPluginTransform.html# https://areadetector.github.io/master/ADCore/NDPluginDriver.html and https://areadetector.github.io/master/ADCore/NDPluginTransform.html#.


Basically, i want a given image to rotate by 90 degrees and the documentation made me believe that this shouldnt be much trouble. The Array i want to rotate is a PV called MOBICDTE:image:ArrayData. I currently load the plugins via standard plugin file: commonPlugins.cmd inside ADCore and it seems to work since we are saving files in hdf5 format with the HDF plugin. The HDF plugin was also loaded with default macros from commonPlugins.cmd.

However, when i try to rotate the image by doing:

dbpf MOBICDTE:Trans1:EnableCallbacks 1

dbpf MOBICDTE:Trans1:Type 1

simply nothing changes in my visualizer when i start acquisition. I tried changing the configurations in the default commonPlugins.cmd file and comparing them with MOBICDTE:image paramaters but im not getting any luck with this. Does anyone have any tips on how to proceed?

What i tried so far:

The initial configurations were as follows:

NDStdArraysConfigure("Image1", 200, 0, "SIM1", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5) NDStdArraysConfigure("Image", 200, 0, "SIM1", 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5)

dbLoadRecords("NDStdArrays.template", "P=MOBICDTE:,R=image1:,PORT=Image1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=2,NDARRAY_PORT=SIM1,TYPE=Int16,FTVL=SHORT,NELEMENTS=12000000") dbLoadRecords("NDStdArrays.template", "P=MOBICDTE:,R=image:,PORT=Image,ADDR=2,TIMEOUT=2,NDARRAY_PORT=SIM1,TYPE=Int16,FTVL=SHORT,NELEMENTS=12000000")

... #Then elsewhere, from the commonPlugins.cmd file:

and by dbgf i could see that:

MOBICDTE:image:PluginType_RBV = NDPluginStdArrays
MOBICDTE:Trans1:PlguinType_RBV = NDPluginTransform

MOBICDTE:image:NDArrayPort_RBV = SIM1
MOBICDTE:Trans1:ArrayPort_RBV = SIM1

MOBICDTE:image:NDArrayAddress_RBV = 0x2
MOBICDTE:Trans1:NDArrayAddress_RBV = 0x0

MOBICDTE:image:QueueSize_RBV = 0xc8
MOBICDTE:Trans1:QueueSize_RBV = 0xc8

MOBICDTE:image:MaxThreads_RBV = 0x5
MOBICDTE:Trans1:MaxThreads_RBV = 0x4

So i thought i should change Trans1:NDArrayAddress to 0x2 by dbpf. Not only it did not work, but i also noticed that

MOBICDTE:HDF1:NDArrayAddress = 0x0

And the HDF plugin works fine, so i dont think the problem is the address anymore.

Am i doing something wrong? Im quite new to this plugin concept when applied to Area Detector. Thanks in advance for any help.