EVENT NAME Epics Collaboration Meeting 2020 EVENT DATE: THURSDAY, 22 OCTOBER, 2020 - 04:00 PM to 10:00 AM EVENT BY: HEINZ JUNKES Posted Questions [10:40 AM] sandeep malu asked : Can anyone suggest how to guide to build EPICS base7 using Microsoft Compiler? I am able to build it using mingw on Windows I am exploring to use pvAccess APIs inside C# application. 1 upvote | 2 answers | 1 reply Ralph answered - Heinz put that on my list. I will add a chapter on the how-to document that now only describes the MinGW approach. sandeep malu replied - Ok Thanks Ralph. Ralph answered - Basically: Install VS, perl, Python, Make. Open a terminal, run the "vcvarsall.bat" for the target architecture, set EPICS_HOST_ARCH. Got into the Base type "make". [10:49 AM] steve terepin asked : Is there anyone interested in talking to Epics using the gRPC protocol ? 1 upvote | 2 answers | 1 reply Heinz Junkes answered - I was not aware of it until now ;-) Ralph answered - That's a good question to put on tech-talk (the "audience joker" with >900 recipients). If there's serious interest somewhere, you will find your peers there. steve terepin replied - Sure, I'll ask there. It's a really nice, open source protocol, with bidirectional streaming, strongly typed messages defined in a '.proto' file ; plus tools to create client & server 'wrapper' classes to encode/decode the binary messages. https://grpc.io/ [10:01 AM] sandeep malu asked : Is the autosave module supports PVARecord (v4)? 0 upvote | 0 answer | 0 reply [10:03 AM] Zumbruch, Peter asked : BlueJeans Quenstion: Using the Android or Linux App I am asked for a meeting ID instead of a link. Could you tell me? 0 upvote | 2 answers | 2 replies Patrick Oppermann answered - Attende Enter Meeting ID : 484965884 and Passcode : 4651 Patrick Oppermann answered - presenter Enter Meeting ID : 643378358 and Passcode : 7581 Zumbruch, Peter replied - It s not working with the app. Zumbruch, Peter replied - Android: "To Join the event, please use URL o Event-ID of your invitation" but Browser works, so I'll use this. [10:04 AM] Zumbruch, Peter asked : Attendee 0 upvote | 0 answer | 0 reply [10:05 AM] sandeep malu asked : Any plan to have autosave feature for pvDatabase records? 0 upvote | 2 answers | 2 replies Ralph answered - That would be a good question to put on the core-talk list, where all the maintainers of the affected modules are members. sandeep malu replied - I have put that in teck-talk https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2020/msg01679.php. No reply though Ralph answered - Send to to the core-talk list (not tech-talk). The core-talk list has mostly Core and main module developers (~30 people), while tech-talk has the big audience (> 900 people). sandeep malu replied - Ok. Thanks [10:10 AM] sandeep malu asked : Also, noted that equivalent command to do dbgf & dbpf in st.cmd is missing for pvDatabase records. Though there are other methods to do it like the one mentioned in git repos of example code wherein during creating the pvDatabase record, we assign the value 0 upvote | 1 answer | 0 reply Ralph answered - There are a few things missing for pvDatabase to be at production level. [10:14 AM] Maurizio Montis asked : in VxWorks there's the new EPICS_TZ which replaces EPICS_TIMEZONE and no noeed to update DST start/end dates. Is this a feature only for VxWorks OS? (probably I missed some pieces of imformation) 0 upvote | 1 answer | 0 reply Ralph answered - Available for vxWorks and RTEMS. [10:16 AM] Zumbruch, Peter asked : Talk recordings: For tomorrows Q&A when will they be available? To be able to see them before. 0 upvote | 3 answers | 2 replies Heinz Junkes answered - 9:30pm on the indico link to the recordings Zumbruch, Peter replied - Where can I find this link? Heinz Junkes answered - You will find the link to the records in the timetable->sessionBlock (Applications using EPICS) -> materials Zumbruch, Peter replied - Well hidden, Since I am always using the detailed view. Heinz Junkes answered - Wir tun unserer Bestes ;-) [10:23 AM] sandeep malu asked : Which widget supports NTNDArray display in CS-Studio (I am using sns-css version 4.5.1)? In phoebus, using Image widget with PV name as “pva://CAM:Pva1:Image”, I am able to stream the camera image 0 upvote | 1 answer | 1 reply Heinz Junkes answered - This will be a question to Kunal. I will ask this today. sandeep malu replied - Ok. Thanks Heinz [10:28 AM] Zumbruch, Peter asked : Yesterday we had e9 presenting alternatives to container solutions .... but what is your opinion on the usability of container based solutiions. Since we are pushing to use our detector people dto use containers, for reasons of less knowledge, less time, and better maintainabilty by us. 0 upvote | 1 answer | 2 replies Ralph answered - Hm. Zumbruch, Peter replied - Never said "docker" Zumbruch, Peter replied - (Live: Technical problems)