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'amcc_dump_bsi --all shm-tst-lab2-atca02/2' (from psdev) will tell you if the slot 2 xpm (XPM:2) ethernet link is up.

Can check light levels going into the xpm by looking at EPICS variables like this: 


Code Block
(ps-4.1.2) tmo-daq:scripts> pvget DAQ:NEH:XPM:0:SFPSTATUS
DAQ:NEH:XPM:0:SFPSTATUS 2021-01-13 14:36:15.450    
LossOfSignal ModuleAbsent TxPower RxPower
           0            0  6.5535  6.5535
           1            0  0.5701  0.0001
           0            0  0.5883  0.7572
           0            0  0.5746  0.5679
           0            0  0.8134   0.738
           0            0  0.6844    0.88
           0            0  0.5942  0.4925
           0            0  0.5218  0.7779
           1            0   0.608  0.0001
           0            0  0.5419  0.3033
           1            0  0.6652  0.0001
           0            0  0.5177  0.8751
           1            1       0       0
           0            0  0.7723   0.201


Opal

NOTE: when powering on the opal/feb-box (front-end-board) the LED on the FEB box will stay red until the DAQ has configured it, when it will turn green.  Also, only after the DAQ configuration is done will the "@ID?" and "@BS?" uart strings sent to the camera here work.  This is probably also fixable by loading a rogue yaml config file included in the cameralink-gateway git repo:

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