Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Angus Gratton <[email protected]> · Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:57:07 +1100

Does anyone have any tips on simulating hardware for easy/quick UI
development?

My intention is to be able to test that a given UI and a database talk
properly, before facing the problem of having the database talk to the
hardware. I'm using wxPython w/ pyepics for the UIs.

I've read about the 'simulation mode' record fields in the Record
Reference & App Developer's Guide, but I don't just want to switch a
single record over to simulation mode. I want to control a soft IOC
without any of my real target hardware, but with equivalent PV names.

Have I missed an available resource somewhere?

At the moment I'm thinking the easiest way may be to just run sed over
my database file to change all the DTYPs to asyn soft records (all our
hardware records are asyn), and then fix up the INP/OUT port names. Then
I can just poke in the values I need for UI testing at runtime, using
iocsh or caget/caput.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Cheers,

Angus

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System