aai to multiple states

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

Dear EPICS community,

I have an aai record "info_get" that contains multiple values.

#=============== Information array ===============

record(aai, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get") {

    field(DESC, "Retrieve slot status")

    field(DTYP, "stream")

    field(INP, "@infus.proto getSingleSlotconf($(SLOT)) $(PORT)")

    field(NELM, "26")

    field(FTVL, "DOUBLE")

    field(PREC, 1)

}

9 values of these are booleans representing different outputs that are on or off (0 or 1).

I could create now, e.g. 9 binary inputs to map these values.

record(bi, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):output_preAB_get") {

    field(INP,  "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[4] CP")

    field(ZNAM, "OPEN")

    field(ONAM, "CLOSED")

}

record(bi, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):output_preCD_get") {

    field(INP,  "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[5] CP")

    field(ZNAM, "OPEN")

    field(ONAM, "CLOSED")

}

...# and so on

Yet, I wanted to ask, if there is another way of mapping this subarray to one record containing the states.
I thought the mbbi would suite, but unfortunately, it does not work as expected:

record(calc, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):_calc_output") {

    field(DESC, "OUTPUT module: aai to byte")

    field(CALC, "(A<<8) | (B<<7) | (C<<6) | (D<<5) | (E<<4) | (F<<3) | (G<<2) | (H<<1) | I")

    field(INPA, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[4] CP")

    field(INPB, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[5]")

    field(INPC, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[6]")

    field(INPD, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[7]")

    field(INPE, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[8]")

    field(INPF, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[9]")

    field(INPG, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[10]")

    field(INPH, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[11]")

    field(INPI, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):info_get.VAL[12]")

}

record(mbbi, "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):output_get") {

    field(DESC, "OUTPUT module: Outputs")

    field(DTYP, "Raw Soft Channel")

    field(INP,  "$(P)$(R)slot$(SLOT):_calc_output CP")

    field(ZRST, "Ausgang Vorstufe A,B")

    field(ONST, "Ausgang Vorstufe C,D")

    field(TWST, "Ausgang Vorstufe E,F")

    field(THST, "Ausgang A")

    field(FRST, "Ausgang B")

    field(FVST, "Ausgang C")

    field(SXST, "Ausgang D")

    field(SVST, "Ausgang E")

    field(EIST, "Ausgang F")

}

(By the way:
The CP flag at INPA does not seem to be sufficient to process my calc record. At least for my tests I needed to caput .._calc_output.PROC 1 to process it).

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards
Simon