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Excitations demo (MAPS, MERLIN, MARI, LET, ALF) 12.03.2020

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Dominic Oram edited this page Mar 30, 2020 · 8 revisions

Present: DL (MARI), TG (MARI) and AD (MERLIN)

  • They like the run control option for devices becoming disconnected, suggested that this could be on by default

  • They liked the idea of being able to configure which perspectives they see on an instrument (e.g. remove Alarms view or IOC log) (Updated #5238)

  • Linting:

    • They were really happy that scripts are getting linted!
    • The linting is too slow (#5210 covers this)
    • MERLIN liked the linting but wanted additional logical checks to stop e.g.:
    cset(temp=50)
wait_for(temp=51)

  • Script server:

    • MARI used the script server last year, but found that they couldn't import inst. This should be fixed now
    • Scientists seemed genuinely excited about this getting closer to production-ready
    • They would like an abort currently running script button which does not clear the queue (current button clears everything) (Updated #3415)
    • They would like linting to be applied to scripts in the script server too (Updated #5293)
    • While pausing a script in the script server, the pause logo did not appear correctly in the perspective switcher

  • MARI makes some use of the genie simulation mode, and have also written their own simulator for block names.

    • We might be able to make the block name checker more widely available. This currently lives on NDXMARI. (Created #5321)
    • MARI have started looking at the simulation mode as a way to estimate script time (Updated #4172)

  • Script generator:

    • They didn't like the generated script containing all of the information required to define the script
    • They wanted the generator to be integrated in with the script server, with a split generator/script server perspective
    • Again seemed quite keen for this to be production-ready

  • Features/issues the scientists raised:

    • Need to add bi-directional homing for their McLennan motors (Created #5322)
    • Checked in on the Beckhoff progress
    • Re-requested the PyDev buttons in the scripting perspective to be personalised (Updated #5084)

  • NDXDEMO was sluggish throughout the whole demo which made things difficult.

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