Re: Some questions about CaLab (Dariush Hampai)

[Dariush Hampai via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Carsten,
this means that if I send a CaLab get.vi with PV mm4006:m11 and the array field [HOMF,MOVN] I receive an array of value [12,24]... is it right?

The second question is more important... in someway even using disconnect all PV (or sending directly the names of PV to disconnect), with CaLab Info.vi I have in back all the PVs.
Is it possible that the problem is with the architecture of Labview? i.e., Labview64 or Labview32?

Awaiting your replay

Dariush

Il 23/06/2025 07:31, Carsten Winkler ha scritto:

The CA Lab does not have a function for writing multiple fields in a single channel access command.

Fields are written by adding the field name with a dot.

If you need to write to multiple fields, you can use array parameters as follows:

Carsten

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   1. Re: Problem with Newport CONEX-AGAP FTDI device on Linux
      (James P. Withrow)
   2. Re: Problem with Newport CONEX-AGAP FTDI device on Linux
      (Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov)
   3. Some questions about CaLab (Dariush Hampai)
   4. RE: Problem with Newport CONEX-AGAP FTDI device on Linux
      (Mark Rivers)


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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:18:51 +0000
From: "James P. Withrow" <jwithrow@cornell.edu>
To: Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>
Cc: tech-talk EPICS <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Problem with Newport CONEX-AGAP FTDI device on Linux
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Mark -

It looks like the issue may be that the VID/PID pair (particularly the PID) may not be included in the currently running ftdi_sio driver.

A quick Google search turned up this incantation, which may be helpful:


echo "<VID> <PID>" >  /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio/new_id

Untested, as I?m out of the office, but hopefully this may point you in the correct direction.

-Jim Withrow

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 20, 2025, at 11:52, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

62363.524320] usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[62363.655966] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=104d, idProduct=3008, bcdDevice= 6.00
[62363.655975] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[62363.655978] usb 1-4: Product: CONEX-AGAP
[62363.655980] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Newport
[62363.655982] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: A694ND5H
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:19:39 +0700 (+07)
From: "Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov" <D.Yu.Bolkhovityanov@inp.nsk.su>
To: Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Newport CONEX-AGAP FTDI device on Linux
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Hi Mark!

I suppose the problem is in product's ID.

Newport-CONEX-AGP's "idProduct=3006" *is* listed among supported IDs in 
ftdi_sio_ids.h, see https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h?h=v6.16-rc2__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cEIzCUjhW53L-KKEAV3e3SDEZCubl_LXE7ev4lxhWZfS5l5_fb1Uvx73nAo1Qmei1z1rHE3YjXYUZg_-sksd1QU4UU-cxedRxvU$ 

#define NEWPORT_CONEX_AGP_PID		0x3006

(and in ftdi_sio.c driver too)

while CONEX-AGAP's "idProduct=3008" is not, even in the latest kernel 
version 6.16 (AFAIR, RHEL9 uses Linux kernet 5.14).


With best regards,
Dmitry



On Fri, 20 Jun 2025, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk wrote:

Folks,

I have an older Newport-CONEX-AGP controller that works fine on Linux.
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.newport.com/f/agilis-piezo-linear-stage-with-conex-controller__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!esBpnKdccckn_TlnsWE5ruJncpjWNfxHfi8SNZ2M5qWp8ab4wjlgsB18EO_4YOzuwREd1qW6ipequMg2cHFGxsaFyd4$

The device has a USB interface and uses FTDI.  When I plug in the device on my RHEL 9 machine I see these messages in dmesg:

[62289.315988] usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
[62289.447505] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=104d, idProduct=3006, bcdDevice= 6.00
[62289.447514] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[62289.447518] usb 1-4: Product: CONEX-AGP
[62289.447520] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Newport
[62289.447522] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: A6UJN7YS
[62289.450490] ftdi_sio 1-4:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[62289.450536] usb 1-4: Detected FT232R
[62289.451085] usb 1-4: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

The device is now available on /dev/ttyUSB0.

I expected to be able to do the same thing with a newer CONEX-AGAP controller.
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.newport.com/f/conex-piezo-absolute-positioning-mirror-mount__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!esBpnKdccckn_TlnsWE5ruJncpjWNfxHfi8SNZ2M5qWp8ab4wjlgsB18EO_4YOzuwREd1qW6ipequMg2cHFG2VO-mdQ$

However, when I plug in the device on my RHEL 9 machine I see these messages in dmesg:

[62360.327898] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[62360.327934] ftdi_sio 1-4:1.0: device disconnected
[62363.524320] usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[62363.655966] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=104d, idProduct=3008, bcdDevice= 6.00
[62363.655975] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[62363.655978] usb 1-4: Product: CONEX-AGAP
[62363.655980] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Newport
[62363.655982] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: A694ND5H

Note that I do not get the messages about ftdi_sio detected or the message about attaching to ttyUSBx.

The new CONEX-AGAP works fine on Windows, where it appears as a COM port.  I can configure the COM port with EPICS:

drvAsynSerialPortConfigure("serial1", "COM5", 0, 0, 0)
asynOctetSetInputEos("serial1",0,"\r\n")
asynOctetSetOutputEos("serial1",0,"\r\n")
asynSetOption("serial1",0,"baud","921600")
asynSetOption("serial1",0,"bits","8")
asynSetOption("serial1",0,"stop","1")
asynSetOption("serial1",0,"parity","none")
asynSetOption("serial1",0,"clocal","Y")
asynSetOption("serial1",0,"crtscts","N")

Given the behavior on Windows, I think the CONEX-AGAP is also an FTDI device.  But if so, then why is Linux not recognizing it as such?

Thanks,
Mark

 	_________________________________________
 	  Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
 	  The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
 	  Novosibirsk, Russia


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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:27:15 +0200
From: Dariush Hampai <dariush.hampai@lnf.infn.it>
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Subject: Some questions about CaLab
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Hi all,
I have some problems with CaLab, necessary to integrate epics with a 
LabView interface. In particular now I have two big problems:
1) i don't understand how to use multiple field in the same CA. For 
example, my newport IOC includes some records of the type
mm4006:m11.HOMF
mm4006:m11.MOVN
etc...
CaLab Put.vi does not include the field. What do I do? if I put (for 
example) mm4006:m11.HOMF and mm4006:m11.MOVN as PV I find two distinct 
PVs...
2) I am trying to generate a monitor of the various IOCs. When starting 
LabView there is no PV (via CaLab info.vi). If I start the IOCs I see 
the PVs. However if I stop the IOCs, via command prompt (caget etc...) I 
do not see (obviously) the active CA, while via CaLab info.vi the CA are 
still active and give me the last values read. Even after a reset of PV, 
using CaLab_Disconnect.vi, I still see the active CAs with the last 
value read. Where am I going wrong?

Dariush

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