Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Chris Slominski <[email protected]> · Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:18:34 -0500

I want to be able to force my EPICS channel access client to begin a new

search for currently disconnected channels.We have small short term

pc104 iocs come and go and sometimes they are not configured correctly

to broadcast when they have been booted up. A client listening to the

channels won't see a beacon anomaly and begin the channel search sequence.

I can see a couple of ways to do this.

- Send a network beacon to the CA Repeater.
- Issue a search for some non-existent channel.

Please advise on what is a good way to do this. Example code or

references to EPICS source code are very welcome, as I am neither

familiar with EPICS base software, nor am I an experienced network

programmer. My client software uses EPICS 3.13.10.

      Chris

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System