Re: Asyn + Streamdevice: Gamma Vacuum Digtial QPC, missmatch after some time

["Dr. Simon Friederich via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Dear Ralph and Marco,

Your argumentation sounds reasonable. Thank you for the advice, I'll give Marco's replytimeout a try :-)

(regardless of whether this solution works for me, this sounds like something that could be collected on a tips & tricks subpage of https://epics-controls.org/ :-))

Best regards,
Simon

Am 14.10.2024 um 11:30 schrieb Dr. Simon Friederich:

Dear EPICS-community,

I am struggeling with our implementation of the IGP controller from Gamma Vacuum Digital QPC that we use.
Out of the sudden or at a certain point, which I can neither explain nor reproduce, the IOC complains that the controllers' responses to the protocol no longer fit.

Here is an example output that I've retrieved in the morning, before that the IOC ran for weeks without error:

2024/10/08 08:15:41.970931 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:i_get_raw: No reply within 2000 ms to "cmd 0A 1<0d>"
2024/10/08 08:15:43.974231 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:p_get_raw: No reply within 2000 ms to "cmd 0B 1<0d>"
2024/10/08 08:15:45.977001 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:u_get: No reply within 2000 ms to "cmd 0C 1<0d>"
2024/10/08 08:15:46.722205 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:on_get: Input "1.3E-11 MBAR" does not match format "%{NO|YES}"
2024/10/08 08:15:46.842189 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:stat_get: Input "13" does not match format "%{STANDBY|RUNNING 00|SAFE-CONN 00|INTERLOCK 00|PUMP ERROR 00|CALIBRATION 00}"
2024/10/08 08:15:46.967906 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:stat_get: Input "18" does not match format "%{STANDBY|RUNNING 00|SAFE-CONN 00|INTERLOCK 00|PUMP ERROR 00|CALIBRATION 00}"
2024/10/08 08:15:47.087939 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:i_get_raw: Input "NO" does not match format "%e"
2024/10/08 08:15:47.207884 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:p_get_raw: Input "STANDBY" does not match format "%e"
2024/10/08 08:15:47.327939 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:on_get: Input "PUMP ERROR 00" does not match format "%{NO|YES}"
2024/10/08 08:15:47.693674 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:u_get: Input "NO" does not match format "%i"
2024/10/08 08:15:48.059375 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:i_get_raw: Input "OK 00 14" too short.
2024/10/08 08:15:48.059449 igpctrlmodh2071_port No match for " AMPS"
2024/10/08 08:15:48.179663 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:p_get_raw: Input "OK 00 7.5E-11 AMPS"
2024/10/08 08:15:48.179734 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:p_get_raw: mismatch after 14 bytes "...0 7.5E-11 "
2024/10/08 08:15:48.179764 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:p_get_raw: got "AMPS" where "MBAR" was expected
2024/10/08 08:15:48.299339 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:on_get: Input "1.3E-11 MBAR" does not match format "%{NO|YES}"
2024/10/08 08:15:48.419330 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:i_get_raw: Input "NO" does not match format "%e"
2024/10/08 08:15:48.545033 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:p_get_raw: Input "OK 00 1.9E-10 AMPS"
2024/10/08 08:15:48.545094 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:p_get_raw: mismatch after 14 bytes "...0 1.9E-10 "
2024/10/08 08:15:48.545132 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:p_get_raw: got "AMPS" where "MBAR" was expected
2024/10/08 08:16:35.567653 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba040:diffp_down:p_get_raw: No reply within 2000 ms to "cmd 0B 3<0d>"
2024/10/08 08:16:36.821755 igpctrlmodh2071_port melba060:pump:on_get: Input "1.3E-11 MBAR" does not match format "%{NO|YES}"

I attach the proto and database files we've written. Maybe you can spot any obvious error or have any advice for me to further debug this issue.

Best regards,
Simon

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Dr. Simon Friederich
Institut für Kernphysik
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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