 14 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Hide start and stop buttons
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> I believe the original "hide run start / stop" was added specifically for ND280 GSC MIDAS. I do not know
> why it was removed. "hide pause / resume" is still there. I will restore them. Hiding logger channel
> section should probably be automatic of there is no /logger/channels, I can check if it works and what
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15 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Hide start and stop buttons
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> I believe the original "hide run start / stop" was added specifically for ND280 GSC MIDAS. I do not know
> why it was removed. "hide pause / resume" is still there. I will restore them. Hiding logger channel
> section should probably be automatic of there is no /logger/channels, I can check if it works and what
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20 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, epics fe "Start Command"
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Thanks for reporting this problem. It has been fixed today, so the start command is only written if it's emtpy.
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26 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, scroll when browsing for a link
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> When making a link in the odb (web interface) a nice browser window pop's up. There is however not scrolling possible in the window. As a result, you
can not reach a odb key if it is nested to deeply.
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 26 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, mjsonrpc_db_save / mjsonrpc_db_load have been dropped
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The JavaScript function
mjsonrpc_db_save / mjonrpc_db_load
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01 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, ODB page and hex values
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Thanks for reporting this bug, I fixed it in the last commit.
Best,
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06 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New equipment display
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Since a long time we tried to convert all "static" mhttpd-generated pages to
dynamic JavaScript. With the new history panel editor we were almost there. Now I
committed the last missing piece - the equipment display. This is shown when you
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09 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New equipment display 
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An additional functionality has been implemented on the equipment table:
You can now select several elements by Ctrl/Shift-Click on their names, then change the
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24 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Device with inputs and outputs
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The "multi" class driver takes care of that. It properly calls the SET and GET functions
with the correct index. The code for that is in multi.cxx:105:
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13 Nov 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, mlogger does not HAVE_ROOT
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When you do "cmake .." in the build directory, you will see
-- MIDAS: Found ROOT version xxx in yyy
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14 Nov 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, mlogger does not HAVE_ROOT
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No, I'm not aware of this problem, but I suspect that your events somehow got corrupted. You can try the mdump utility
or the "Event Dump" web page to peek into your events, maybe you see an issue there. To give you more detailed information,
I would have to reproduce your problem, which is probably hard without your hardware.
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22 Nov 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Polled frontend writes data to ODB without RO_ODB
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I cannot confirm that. I just tried myself with examples/experiment/frontend.cxx, removed the RO_ODB, and the trigger events did NOT get copied to the ODB.
Actually you can debug the code yourself. The relevant line is in mfe.cxx:2075:
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22 Nov 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, run number from an external (*SQL) db?
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> - multiple subdetectors are taking test data during early commissioning
> - a postgres db is a single sorce of run numbers.
> - test runs taken by different subsystems are assigned different [unique] run numbers and
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02 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, run number from an external (*SQL) db?
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> Stefan, I don't think we're talking 'mis-use' - rather different subdetectors being commisisoned
> at different locations, on an uncorrelated schedule, using independent run control (RC) instances.
> At this point in time, we can't use a common RC instance.
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02 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, MIDAS state machine : how to get around w/o 'configured' state?
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> The MIDAS state machine doesn't seem to have a state in between 'initialized' and
> 'running'.
> In a larger detectors with multiple subsystems, the DAQ systems often have one more state:
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04 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, run number from an external (*SQL) db?
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> - how does one communicate with an external shell script from MSL ? I looked at the MIDAS Sequencer page
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> https://daq00.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Sequencer
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04 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, run number from an external (*SQL) db?
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> [that was not obvious from the documentation on MIDAS wiki, and adding a couple of clarifying
> sentences there would go long ways]
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07 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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Dear beloved MIDAS users,
I'm happy to announce a "holiday update" for MIDAS. In countless hours, Zaher from
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10 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> If I understand the msequencer code correctly:
> Under '/Sequencer/State/Path' the path can be defined from where the msequencer gets the files, generates the xml, etc.
> However, the new javascript code reads/writes the files to '<exp>/userfiles/sequencer/'
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10 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Forum, history plotting: where to convert the ADC readings into temps/voltages?
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> to plot time dependencies of the monitored detector parameters, say, voltages or temperatures,
> one needs to convert the coresponging ADC readings into floats.
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