 15 Oct 2014, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Problem in mfe multithread equipments
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Please disregard my previous posting, you don't need the while loop, since it's already in the scheduler (around lines 2160 under /*---- send interrupt
events ----*/).
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15 Oct 2014, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Problem with EQ_USER
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Sure, each thread needs its own ring buffer for writing.
So I see that we need back the multiple-ring-buffer-readout-scheme even before MEG will start. So what you need is something like
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16 Oct 2014, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Problem with EQ_USER
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I restructured the front-end code to enable multiple readout threads for EQ_USER equipment. Last summer I was definitively interrupted during
that work and left it in an half finished state, sorry for that.
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16 Oct 2014, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Problem in mfe multithread equipments
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> while (1)
> wait 10 ms for an event
> process event, loop back
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16 Oct 2014, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Hostile network scans against MIDAS RPC ports
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> Sometimes we have very small MIDAS installations, i.e. just one machine by itself, and such setups should be secure/secured easily -
> too much work to setup an external firewall box just for one machine and OS-level firewall rules sometimes conflict
> with some OS services (i.e. NIS) (I am still waiting for the "NIS to LDAP migration for dummies" guide).
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24 Oct 2014, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Running a frontend on Arduino Yun
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> Hello,
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> I'm currently trying to create a midas bank for basic temperature reading from the Arduino Yun, but when creating a bank the frontend crashed with a |
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02 Nov 2014, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Running a frontend on Arduino Yun
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> With the correct definition, you should get a compile error (type mismatch).
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> With the wrong current definition, you should have gotten a warning about "use of uninitialized variable 'data'", but some compilers with some settings |
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06 Nov 2014, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Weird problem on new installation
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[quote="Razvan Stefan Gornea"]In my case I have the following structure in ODB right before the framework calls frontend_init():
/Equipment/CAEN_V1740 [B][CLOSE][/B]
/Equipment/CAEN_V1740/Variables [B][CLOSE][/B]
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03 Mar 2015, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Starting program from custom page
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> I am trying to start a program (fronend) from a custom page. What is the best
> way to do that? Would ODBRpc() do this? if so can anyone give me an example of
> how to do this. Thanks.
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03 Mar 2015, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Starting program from custom page
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> Hi Stefan, thanks for the quick reply. I guess my question was not clear enough.
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> My aim is to create a button which mimics the "Start/Stop" button functionality in the
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13 May 2015, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Check if Client is running from Javascript
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[quote="Andreas Suter"]Is there currently an easy way to check from javascript if a midas client is
running? I mean an equivalent to cm_exist.
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14 May 2015, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, checksums for midas data files
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> Any thoughts on this?
We use binary midas files now for ~20 years and never felt the necessity to put any checksums or even encryption on these files. The reason for that is |
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10 Jun 2015, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Midas-MSCB SCS2000 integration
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> If anyone has any ideas or has had previous work with the SCS2000 and knows how to read back the
> internal values please let me know.
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29 Jul 2015, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, jset/ODBSet using true/false for booleans
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See bitbucket for the solution.
https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/issues/29/jset-odbset-using-true-false-for-booleans#comment-20550474 |
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14 Aug 2015, Stefan Ritt, Info, Merged - improved midas network security
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I tested the new scheme and am quite happy with. Just a minor thing. When I change the ACL, I get messages from all attached programs, like:
[local:Online:S]RPC hosts>set "Allowed hosts[1]" "host.psi.ch"
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20 Aug 2015, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Sequencer limits
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> > - ODBGet (and ODBSet?) does seem to be able to take a variable as a path... I
> > was trying to use an array whose index would be incremented.
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21 Aug 2015, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, MIDAS message page auto-size (horizontally) is annoying
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> New version of MIDAS has a feature where it seems to automatically resize the
> message page horizontally in order to fix each MIDAS message into one line.
> Some of my MIDAS messages (in particular error messages, where I need details)
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22 Oct 2015, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Feature Request: MIDAS sequencer abort.
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> > it would be useful to have a kind of scripted "abort" for when something goes wrong ...
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> How about having the sequencer switching from the aborted sequence file to the special "abort" sequence file? That
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24 Oct 2015, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Feature Request: MIDAS sequencer abort.
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> It would be useful to have it be specified for each script. Reason is that it's simpler, some scripts might only
> change a few sensitive settings, then on abort it only has to set back to "normal" what it touched to begin with.
> Also, the "normal" values are usually stored in local variables, so it's important to have those similarly accessible
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30 Oct 2015, Stefan Ritt, Info, synchronous ajax deprecated
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> We're using mhttpd for calls that end up working better with asynchronous requests, and we've built up sort of a parallel, asynchronous library using
javascript Promises.
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