 11 Dec 2023, Pavel Murat, Forum, the logic of handling history variables ? 11x
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Dear MIDAS developers,
I'm trying to understand handling of the history (slow control) variables in MIDAS,
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 12 Dec 2023, Pavel Murat, Forum, the logic of handling history variables ?
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Hi Sfefan, thanks a lot for taking time to reproduce the issue!
Here comes the resolution, and of course, it was something deeply trivial :
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10 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, slow control frontends - how much do they sleep and how often their drivers are called?
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Dear all,
I have implemented a number of slow control frontends which are directed to update the
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11 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, slow control frontends - how much do they sleep and how often their drivers are called?
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Hi Stefan, thanks a lot !
I just thought that for the EQ_SLOW type equipment calls to sleep() could be hidden in mfe.cxx
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16 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, a scroll option for "add history variables" window?
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Dear all,
I have a "slow control" frontend which reads out 100 slow control parameters.
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17 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, a scroll option for "add history variables" window?
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> Have you updated to the current midas version? This issue has been fixed a while ago.
Hi Stefan, thanks a lot! I pulled from the head, and the scrolling works now. -- regards, Pasha |
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24 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Bug Report, Warnings about ODB keys that haven't been touched for 10+ years
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I don't immediately see a reason for saying that if a DB key is older than 10 yrs, it may not be valid.
However, it would be worth learning what was the logic behind choosing 10 yrs as a threshold.
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28 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, number of entries in a given ODB subdirectory ?
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Dear MIDAS experts,
- I have a detector configuration with a variable number of hardware components - FPGA's receiving data
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29 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, number of entries in a given ODB subdirectory ?
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Hi Stefan, Konstantin,
thanks a lot for your responses - they are very teaching and it is good to have them archived in the forum.
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29 Jan 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, a scroll option for "add history variables" window?
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> If you have some ideas on how to better present 100500 history variables, please shout out!
let me share some thoughts. In a particular case which lead to the original posting,
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03 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, number of entries in a given ODB subdirectory ?
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Konstantin is right: KEY.num_values is not the same as the number of subkeys (should it be ?)
For those looking for an example in the future, I attach a working piece of code converted
from the ChatGPT example, together with its printout.
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03 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Bug Report, string --> int64 conversion in the python interface ?
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Dear MIDAS experts,
I gave a try to the MIDAS python interface and ran all tests available in midas/python/tests.
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05 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, forbidden equipment names ?
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Dear MIDAS experts,
I have multiple daq nodes with two data receiving FPGAs on the PCIe bus each.
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11 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, number of entries in a given ODB subdirectory ?
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> For ODB keys of type TID_KEY, the value num_values IS the number of subkeys.
this logic makes sense, however it doesn't seem to be consistent with the printout of the test example
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19 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, number of entries in a given ODB subdirectory ?
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> > Hmm... is there any use case where you want to know the number of directory entries, but you will not iterate
> > over them later?
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27 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, displaying integers in hex format ?
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Dear MIDAS Experts,
I'm having an odd problem when trying to display an integer stored in ODB on a custom
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27 Feb 2024, Pavel Murat, Forum, displaying integers in hex format ?
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Hi Stefan (and Ben),
thanks for reacting so promptly - your commits on Bitbucket fixed the problem.
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04 Jul 2024, Pavel Murat, Suggestion, cmake-installing more files ?
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Dear all,
this posting results from the Fermilab move to a new packaging/build system called spack
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24 Nov 2024, Pavel Murat, Bug Report, ODB lock timeout, Difficulty running MIDAS on Rocky 9.4
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there is a really good software tool developed by the Fermilab DAQ group, called TRACE -
https://github.com/art-daq/trace ,
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30 Nov 2024, Pavel Murat, Bug Report, EQ_PERIODIC-only equipment ?
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Dear Midas experts,
I'm running into something which looks like an initialization problem.
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