Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Folks,

 

There are new releases of ADCore and ADSpinnaker.

 

ADCore R3-13.  Release notes:

NDArrayPool

·         Provide a mechanism to override the default memory allocator for NDArrays. Thanks to Emilio PJ on Github for this.

asynNDArrayDriver

·         Added UpdateTimeStamps method.

·         Added NDFileFreeCapture parameter to manually free the capture buffer.

·         Allow the filename in readNDAttributes file to be an XML string rather than a file name. This allows Channel Access clients to write the XML directly. Thanks to Marcell Nagy for this.

NDAttribute

·         Added support for attribute type CONST, where the value is the "source" value specified in the XML file. Thanks to Keenan Lang for this.

NDPluginFile

·         Change capture buffer to use std::vector which is simpler and cleaner.

·         Free capture buffer when capture or streaming start to prevent memory leak.

·         Added FreeCapture record to manually free the capture buffer.

·         Include the interface and interrupt masks passed to the constructor in the masks passed to NDPluginDriver.

NDFileNexus

·         Set the plugin type.

NDPluginBadPixel

·         Fix missing argument to constructor from configuration command.

NDPluginProcess

·         Improved the logic for high and low clipping so that both the threshold and the replacement value can be independently specified. Previously these were always the same value.

o    LowClip has been renamed to LowClipThresh.

o    HighClip has been renamed to HighClipThresh.

o    LowClipValue and HighClipValue have been added.

o    This change is not backwards compatible, the value of Low/HighClipValue must now be specified.

commonDriverMakefile, commonLibraryMakefile

·         Fix error in upper/lower case of NeXus_DIR.

·         Fix error with nanohttp_stream library.

Continuous integration

·         Added Github Actions builds. Thanks to Ralph Lange and Michael Davidsaver for this.

validateXML.sh

·         Fix location of iocimDetector.

EXAMPLE_commonPlugins.cmd

·         Load NDPluginPva by default.

·         Fix path to support module .template and .req files to be (MODULE)/db rather than (MODULE)/moduleApp/Db.

 

ADSpinnaker R3-5  Release Notes:

• Updated Spinnaker version from 3.1.0.79 to 4.0.0.116 on Windows and Linux.
• Windows users will need to update their local install of the Spinnaker SDK to this version.
• There is a known problem on CentOS 9. The maximum number of driver buffers that Spinnaker will allow is 3. This is not a problem on Ubuntu 22 where a value over 200 is allowed on my system. Even with the limit of 3 I am able to stream the full 163 frame/s on a GS3-U3-23S6M camera. FLIR is aware of the issue.
• Fixed a problem with stream statistics introduced in R3-4. Some of the new statistics are not available on all cameras, for example USB vs GigE. The driver was printing many error messages when a statistic was not supported.