Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:25:06 +0100

Am Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:07:01 +0100
schrieb Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>:

> - Transparent: use a few calcout records that basically count down,
> initiating actions on "change to zero". More records for the interface as
> needed.
> 
> I would probably go for the database solution, because of the full
> transparency and online modifiable functionality (good when developing).

This sounds indeed like what I would have chosen based on your
description. Sounds less complex than having to learn SNL and all the
mechanics behind it while being more "approachable" while
developing/debugging.

> In case you eventually have a generic database solution, please consider
> posting it to https://github.com/epics-docs/database-examples, which is a
> good place to share such patterns.

Thanks for the pointers. Looks like a simple counter is already there.
I'll see how far I get with this (and certainly be back here when I get
stuck). It would be great if there were more examples/patterns in the git
repo. How would "posting" something work there? Just open an new issue,
come up with a pull request...?

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  Gerrit

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System