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


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(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

XPM Timing Links Not Locking

If XPM links don't lock, here are some past causes:

  • check that transceivers (especially QSFP, which can be difficult) are fully plugged in.
  • for opal detectors:
    • use devGui to toggle between LCLS1/LCLS2 timing (Matt has added this to the opal config script, but to the part that executes at startup time)
    • hit TxPhyReset in the devGui (this should now be done in the opal drp executable)
  • for timing system detectors: run "kcuSim -s -d /dev/datadev_1", this should also be done when one runs a drp process on the drp node (to initialize the timing registers).  the drp executable in this case doesn't need any transitions.
  • hit Tx/Rx reset on xpmpva gui (AMC tabs).
  • Valerio and Matt had noticed that the BOS sometimes lets its connections deteriorate. To fix:
    • ssh root@osw-daq-calients320
    • omm-ctrl --reset

Switching to Internal Timing

Do this if accelerator timing is gone.  Can see the timestamp is "wonky" to quote Dr. Matthew Weaver.

Only have to do this for the master xpm that is receiving the accelerator timing.  Run "pyxpm --ip 10.0.1.102 -I -P DAQ:NEH:XPM:0" (i.e. remove the database flags).  The "-I" flag does some initialization, in particular the CuInput flag is set to 1 (for internal timing) instead of 0 (external timing):


This file puts xpm-0 in internal timing mode: https://github.com/slac-lcls/lcls2/blob/master/psdaq/psdaq/cnf/internal-neh-base.cnf.  Note that in internal timing mode the L0Delay (per-readout-group) seems to default to 90.  Fix it with pvput DAQ:NEH:XPM:0:PART:0:L0Delay 80".

Opal

NOTE: when setting up an opal, the LCLS2 timing comes in on lane 1 (counting from zero) on the second QSFP, as described here:  https://github.com/slaclab/cameralink-gateway.

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