Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:46:46 -0500

Hi Zen,

First you need to get the Linux version of the PvCam library from Photometrics.

Then you would need to modify the Makefile, and perhaps the driver to work on Linux.  As I said, I have not tried this, but the people I mentioned in my previous response have tried.  I don't know if they have succeeded.  I know that the BNL group decided to use Windows with WinView instead.

If what you really want to do is to get this detector up and running with minimal work, then I suggest you download the pre-built version of areaDetector R1-6 for Windows. You can then run it immediately, without having to set up an EPICS build system on Windows, etc.  You can run either the WinView or the PvCam driver.  There are example IOCs for both.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Szalata, Zenon M. [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:42 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: RE: Area Detector

Hi Mark,
In area detector (1.6) the Makefile for pvCam only creates libraries for WIN32 and cygwin32.
I tried to build the pvCam library for Linux and the compilation failed with many errors.
How can the pvCam driver be used on Linux?

Thanks,
Zen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rivers [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:14 AM
> To: Szalata, Zenon M.
> Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: RE: Area Detector
> 
> Hi Zen,
> 
> There are 2 areaDetector drivers for the CoolSnap HQ2.
> 
> The first is the Roper driver:
> 
> http://cars9.uchicago.edu/software/epics/RoperDoc.html
> 
> That driver uses the Roper/Princeton Instruments WinView program.  The
> areaDetector driver controls WinView through the Microsoft COM interface.  It
> only works with Windows.  I use this driver extensively for collecting
> microtomography data.
> 
> The second is the PVCam driver:
> 
> http://cars9.uchicago.edu/software/epics/pvcamDoc.html
> 
> That driver uses the Roper/Photometrics PvCam library.  It should work on both
> Windows and Linux.  However, I have never used it on Linux.  I know that Stuart
> Wilkins ([email protected]), Darron Chabot ([email protected]) and Mattheaw
> Pearson ([email protected]) have been working on trying to
> use PvCam with Linux.  You may want to contact them to see if they have
> managed to get it working.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Szalata, Zenon M. [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:51 PM
> To: Mark Rivers
> Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: Area Detector
> 
> Hi Mark,
> I was given a Photometrics Cool SNAP HQ2 camera.  It comes with a PCI
> interface.  Can this camera work with Area Detector on Linux RHEL5?  If so, is
> there some documentation or an example on how to use Area Detector with
> this type of camera?
> 
> Any help with this is greatly appreciated,
> Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System