We have encountered a safety issue with our HPGe HV and it's midas frontend. Turning off or changing HV unknowingly has to be avoided at all costs.

Current safety protection

We use the DF_REPORT_STATUS flag to give the hardware settings precedence over odb settings. This all takes place in the init.

DAQ recovery Issue?

In the setup / development state, we sometimes have to remove the SHM files and reload an odb dump to recover the DAQ. When the FE is running, this can modify hardware settings. E.g. change a voltage

Question

Is there a way one can let the frontend know the "load"  function is called in odbedit? Or other suggestions to build in this safety.