areadetector / specsanalyser

An EPICS Area Detector driver for SPECS Phoibos electron spectrometers, with DLD (Delay Line Detector). The driver remotely controls an instance of SpecsLab Prodigy running on a Windows 7 server. SpecsLab Prodigy must be configured in Remote Control mode.

specsAnalyser

An EPICS Area Detector driver for SPECS Phoibos electron spectrometers, with DLD (Delay Line Detector).

The driver remotely controls an instance of SpecsLab Prodigy running on a Windows 7 server. SpecsLab Prodigy must be configured in Remote Control mode.

Requires SpecsLab Prodigy version 4.30.1. Please contact SPECS at [email protected] to obtain the correct version of the support software and documentation.

specsanalyser's Issues

readback in 'Fixed Energy' mode requires cam1:datatype to be float64

We have set the client software (bluesky) to set this but might be useful for the IOC to auto-set this as well. We had an issue where we where reading 0 because it was set to int8, but interestingly even float32 also returns values of 0.

Fix reply for Ordinate Axis

During testing at IOS, we found that our analyzer when presented with the command

?0145 GetSpectrumDataInfo ParameterName:"OrdinateRange"

Only returns

!0145 OK: ValueType:double Unit:""

Missing are the optional Min: and Max: values. The change in stuwilkins/specsAnalyser@d939df1 traps the case where the units are a null string and does not continue (returns asynError). There is probably more of an issue with the function cleanString() which throws an exception to the above response.

Fix EOT in specsAnalyser

During testing at IOS, we found that the current code was sending two \n to the analyser for each command. Looking at the code, the ASYN port defines \n as the EOT. I removed the \n from the sprintf statement that formats the outgoing command and all works now. Please see stuwilkins/specsAnalyser@b8dc8a5