Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Thanks for the suggestion, Pedro!

At the end of the day, i figured that maybe autosave fdbrestore function would do what i wanted. Unfortunately, the function was resulting in segmentation fault. Looking in tech-talk i found this thread: https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2014/msg01851.php which suggested that for autosave versions before 5.4.1 it is a known bug which is fixed after that. Since im using autosave 5-10-2 and the PVs are not very long, i gave up using autosave for this.

 I am indeed doing something similar to what you suggested: i created a file full of dbpf's and im trying to use the "execute" function of streamDevice to do a protocol file with:

call_file { }

And a PV in the form:

record(stringout, "$(P)$(R)UpdateConfig"){ }

Untill now i had no success but it seems to be some silly mistake that i still didnt have time to debug.

Thanks,

Marco