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Scope of this guide
This guide will teach you how to look up PVs that you may want to write into your own simulacrum services.
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If you're not familiar with the operating system, or even the machine you're modelling, you can find out a little by looking in lclshome: "Accessing lclshome" (https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/x/dP2REg). This is a very dense way to figure out what your machine reads and writes. However, in some situations, it can be a good resource to "check your PV". lclshome tends to become oversaturated with PVs, so try to find a control panel that relates specifically to the part of the instrument that interests you. Once you're there, simply click with your mouse scroll wheel on a particular field to get the PV name for that field. However, looking at Fig. 2, we see that this is cumbersome and involves sifting through way more PVs than we'll ever need. If only there were a better way to figure out what attributes "matter" to our model....
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