EVENT NAME Epics Collaboration Meeting 2020 EVENT DATE: TUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 2020 - 04:00 PM to 10:00 AM EVENT BY: HEINZ JUNKES Posted Questions [04:17 PM] anonymous asked : Thank you to the EPICS council and team for organising this. General question - will the various talks (videos) be available online afterwards. Time zones don't make it easy for all to view the various talks live. 10 upvotes | 1 answer | 1 reply Heinz Junkes answered - We will record all talks and make them available over night. anonymous replied - Thank you :) [05:20 PM] Lucas Russo asked : Thanks for the great presentation Mark! Are there any real-life examples of other frameworks using areaDetector or asyn outside of the EPICS community? 10 upvotes | 1 answer | 0 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by mark :-) [04:58 PM] Steven Hartman asked : What advice would you offer to a facility interested in developing a FAIR data repository resource for existing data? 5 upvotes | 1 answer | 0 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - beantwortet :-) [04:25 PM] Donny Cosic asked : Is this session being recorded so it can be viewed later? 4 upvotes | 2 answers | 1 reply Heinz Junkes answered - Yes Donny Cosic replied - Thank you very much Heinz Junkes answered - Yes [05:34 PM] MattRippa asked : Thanks Mark for the great presentation. We have custom astronomical camera controllers. Is there a Howto to develop custom support for a new AD driver? 4 upvotes | 1 answer | 0 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by mark :-) [04:17 PM] Kay asked : 'Roadmap' sounds essential, yet 'slow progress'. Can you elaborate on issues? Just a matter of time, or resources, or ..? Alternatives? 2 upvotes | 1 answer | 0 reply Henrik Carling answered - The work in the EPICS council on the roadmap has been slow for various reasons. I would say that the probably most important contributing factor is that the composition of the EPICS council represents many facilities with a wide variety of current configuration and future needs. So just getting the baselines down on paper to then proceed to develop a coherent picture of needs and opportunities is hard and takes a long time. Time is also a factor, all EPICS council members work with EPICS council tasks on their "spare time" on top of their normal jobs. Of course, the pandemic situation has contributed to de-focus the planned activities this year in particular. I hope this answers your question. [06:25 PM] Rod Nussbaumer asked : Any plans to add checksum support as a 'plugin' that doesn't require modifying streamdevice sources to support new/odd devices? 2 upvotes | 2 answers | 0 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by dirk :-) Dirk Zimoch answered - Yes. ..... [06:21 PM] Maren Hauschidt-Purves asked : Thank you Dirk! Are the slides going to be available? 1 upvote | 1 answer | 1 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - https://indico.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/event/52/overview Maren Hauschidt-Purves replied - Thank you [07:08 PM] Andrew Johnson asked : Nice. Do you (plan to) support long strings, e.g. getting a waveform configured as an array of CHAR as a string in Python? (See also the more recent lsi and lso records.) 1 upvote | 0 answer | 0 reply [07:09 PM] Tong Zhang asked : Thanks for the great talk. Does it support asyncio code? 1 upvote | 0 answer | 0 reply [07:10 PM] Di Wang asked : Does it need any special configuration if I want to use diferent virtual python enviroments? pyenv or conda etc... 1 upvote | 0 answer | 0 reply [06:21 PM] Dirk Naparty asked : Thanks Dirk for the great presentation. How complicate is it to change the interface from RS232 to GPIB? 0 upvote | 2 answers | 1 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by dirk :-) Dirk Zimoch answered - instead of drvAsynSerialPortConfigure use GpibBoardDriverConfig or vxi11Configure Dirk Naparty replied - that is realy easy, thanks. [06:21 PM] Joao Paulo Martins asked : Hello Dirk Is it possible to send a constant value to a record that was passed as argument, in case of "mismatch" or "reply timeout" (without using exec dbpf) ? e.g. @replytimeout { exec dbpf \$1 0xAA } 0 upvote | 3 answers | 1 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by dirk :-) Dirk Zimoch answered - with quotes: @replytimeout { exec "dbpf \$1 0xAA" } Dirk Zimoch answered - I misunderstood. You wanted *without* dbpf. That is only possible for the value 0 with %?... in case of a mismatch, There is no "return value" to send independend of input. Maybe something to think about. Joao Paulo Martins replied - Thanks Dirk, you got it, I wanted *without* dbpf. Anyway, I will try this in the "replytimeout" section, which is already fine for my use case. =) [06:22 PM] Dirk Naparty asked : There is a great documentation for StreamDevice (https://paulscherrerinstitute.github.io/StreamDevice/protocol.html). Is this "standard" github.io format? or do you use any special tools? 0 upvote | 1 answer | 0 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by dirk :-) [06:26 PM] Gang Li asked : when streamdevice support motor record？ 0 upvote | 2 answers | 0 reply Sven Pokrzykowski answered - answered by dirk :-) Dirk Zimoch answered - This is tricky. Maybe never. [07:08 PM] Jure Varlec asked : Is changing INP/OUT links during runtime supported? 0 upvote | 0 answer | 0 reply [08:01 PM] Francesco De Carlo asked : Are the presentation recorded and if so can you share the link? thanks 0 upvote | 1 answer | 0 reply Patrick Oppermann answered - the video is uploaded on youtube and you can find the link in Indico.