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Subject: Re: Lambda EMS mismatch errors
From: Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]>
To: Anthony Andrews <[email protected]>
Cc: Yujong Kim <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:03:47 -0700
Tony:

It looks like your instrument returns some peculiar EOL terminators:

<0a><0d><00><0a><0a>

which is a linefeed, carriage return, a null byte and two more linefeeds.

These last two are probably what you describe as 'the double space between commands in telnet'. You can possibly use 'LF LF' as your input terminator, and swallow up the 'LF CR \0' using "%*c" in your protocol. I'm not sure what effect a null byte has on processing and terminating input.

I will guess that your sample output was using 'LF' as the input terminator. This would terminate reading on the first LF, and then leave the CR - 00 - LF -LF remaining in the stream for processing. Alternatively, you migh be able to use multiple 'in' commands in your protocols, each one swallowing up more and more of the line terminator.

It would be so much simpler if instruments could just get these things right in the first place.

   ---   rod.


On 10/25/2012 04:44 PM, Anthony Andrews wrote:
Thanks for the advice!

The echo command was causing those problems.

To solve that, I made two records and two protocols to set SB (echo) and
SM (command prompt length) to 0.

So, now I can get the current and voltage to change slowly.

However, in MEDM I have to hit enter quite a lot to get the voltage to
change and the current doesn't want to change very fast either.

I also get another kind of mismatch error in the output which I think is
a possible cause for the current and voltage changing slowly.

############################################################################
## EPICS R3.14.12.2 $Date: Mon 2011-12-12 14:09:32 -0600$
## EPICS Base built Oct 17 2012
############################################################################
2012/10/25 16:46:37.111 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 3
SR\n
2012/10/25 16:46:37.613 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 4
SB0\r
2012/10/25 16:46:37.613 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 9
PV38.000\n
iocRun: All initialization complete
###########################################################################
## Start any sequence programs
#seq sncxxx,"user=tonyHost"
epics> 2012/10/25 16:46:38.112 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 3
MC\n
2012/10/25 16:46:38.685 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> read 10
0.004\r\000\n\n>
2012/10/25 16:46:38.685 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 4
SM0\r
2012/10/25 16:46:38.685 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 9
PC 0.000\n
2012/10/25 16:46:38.685 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 3
MV\n
2012/10/25 16:46:38.702 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> read 5
\r\000\n\n>
2012/10/25 16:46:38.702 P8 LamEMS:ADDR:VOLT_M: Input "<0d><00>" does not
match format %6f
2012/10/25 16:46:39.112 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> write 3
MC\n
2012/10/25 16:46:39.684 10.1.1.1:4008 <http://10.1.1.1:4008> read 10
0.004\r\000\n\n>



I've also attached a screenshot of telnet, and updated protocol and
database file.

I think that the error here may have something to do with the double
space between commands in telnet, but, I'm not sure.

I'm also not sure what <0d><00> means here.

So far I've tried different terminators, terminators in multiple places
(inside protocols and at the top), and I've tried to represent the
"\r\000\n\n>" at the end of each read inside of the protocol.

But, I can't seem to figure it out.

I think that if I can fix this error, the current and voltage may change
a bit faster as well.

If anyone has any advice on how to get rid of these last error it would
be very helpful.

Thank you.



On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Tony:

    It looks like the power supply echoes the commands that are sent to
    it. You will need to craft your protocol(s) to read these echoed
    commands, or there may be a way to turn off the echoes.

    Rod Nussbaumer
    ISAC Controls, TRIUMF
    Vancouver, Canada




    On 10/23/2012 05:17 PM, Anthony Andrews wrote:

        ##############################__##############################__###############
        ## Start any sequence programs
        #seq sncxxx,"user=tonyHost"
        epics> 2012/10/23 18:05:13.924 xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa:4008 write 3
        MC\n
        2012/10/23 18:05:13.936 xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa:4008 read 5
        MC\n\r\000
        2012/10/23 18:05:13.936 P8 LamEMS:ADDR:CURR_M: Input "MC"
        mismatch after
        0 bytes
        2012/10/23 18:05:13.936 P8 LamEMS:ADDR:CURR_M: got "MC" where
        "Current =
        " was expected
        2012/10/23 18:05:13.936 xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa:4008 write 3
        MV\n




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