Weird question (related to possible EPICS abuse)

[Graeme Winter via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Good morning

Working with an arinax MD3 here, the built-in EPICS interface seems to make the control software unreliable (if I enable it, the Java GUI just vanishes from time to time, not enabling it seems more reliable)

The epics interface allows things like

caput MD3:startRasterScanEx 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 1 1 1 1

Which follows

int startRasterScanEx(double, double, double, double, double, double, double, double, int, int, double, boolean, boolean, boolean)

I would like to use this interface, but by writing a proxy in EPICS (currently using the Python softIOC code) which I will “wrap” the more reliable exporter interface in

However

The nearest I could find to this is a waveform with 14 elements which is clearly not what the above interface is using as I would need to caput -a in that case, yet this worked

So

- is this some weird abuse of EPICS by the MD3 makers?
- is there a way to duplicate this with a python softIOC?

I am endeavoring to have a consistent network interface hence my interest in an EPICS proxy rather than mixing and matching though of course I could also just do that…

As always appreciate the support from the community 

All the best Graeme