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Controls Camera User Guide

For XPP/XCS, there is We have a convenience scripts script for Gige cameras that can be called from the command line called "gige". In case "which gige" does not return anything, this script is located at /reg/g/pcds/engineering_tools/<hutch>/scripts. This should be on the path for <hutch>opr accounts if the currently existing .bashrc was sane enough.

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If you would like to record your controls camera in the xtc stream along with the DAQ data, contact your PCDS-POC. The IOC will need to be build with support for timestamps so that images can be assigned to events. After that, they can be added to the DAQ under the "Camera IOCs" section.

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 If a PV gives you trouble, a first good step is to see if the IOC is up stably and possibly reboot it. For that you will use the IOC manager which has a user guide here. This guides describes how to start it and how to it works. More detailed information for commonly used IOCs can be found below.

IPIMB

See IPIMB Troubleshooting for Controls IPIMBs.

Motor expert screens

Motor screens can be found in various formats at various places in the different hutches. If you are interested in the "expert" screen for most of our motor types, you can use

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This script will bring up the right kind of motor screen (old & new IMS as well as Newport screens). In hutch python, you can also start the motor expert screens my using <motor>.expert_screen().

Newport screens are described heredescribed here.

EPICS trouble shooting

 If a PV gives you trouble, a first good step is to see if the IOC is up stably and possibly reboot it. For that you will use the IOC manager which has a user guide here. This guides describes how to start it and how to it works. More detailed information for commonly used IOCs can be found below.

IPIMB

See IPIMB Troubleshooting for Controls IPIMBs.

Motor setup

Newport

Turn XPS off before connecting motor!

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