camonitor the PACT field

["Neidherr, Dennis Dr. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Dear all,

I have again a small question, this time about the reading out of the PACT field:

For this test I am using a small StreamDevice record which communicates with a connected device. If I execute the processing of this record and use a python script to monitor the status of the PACT field via cagets in a loop, I receive exactly what I expected, so the value of this field changes from 0 to 1 and back to 0. But if I try this with a camonitor (or a pvmonitor) no change is recognized. This also happens in a command prompt so it is no problem of the python library I am using.

Is this a normal behavior?

Thanks in advance, Greetings
Dennis