Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi,

There is a 3rd choice: create the PV in portable channel access server.

If your calculation code can be invoked with Python, be it a C extension or separate program (using subprocess module).
This can be easy to write using PCASpy[1] extension.

Best
Xiaoqiang

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pcaspy


On 02 Oct 2014, at 21:48, zunbeltz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> We need to pass some values, calculated from photographs, to the EPICS network from a windows machine.
> Is it easy to install an IOC server in a windows machine?
> If not, our idea is to create the PVs in an already running IOC server (on linux), and use caput tool (from the EPICS Extensions http://aps.anl.gov/epics/distributions/win32/index.php) to update the values. 
> Is it possible to create an  PV that is not associated with any hardware in a IOC server? Is it enough to add a record in the ioc.db file?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Zunbeltz
>  
> -- 
> Dr. Zunbeltz Izaola
> Accelerator Physics Group
> ESS-Bilbao
> 

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