Reports until 12:59, Tuesday 23 October 2012
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:59, Tuesday 23 October 2012 - last comment - 14:42, Wednesday 24 October 2012(4503)
dust monitor code changes
The remaining dust monitors have been moved over to the code tested at end Y as under work permits 3471, 3512.

The main goal of the code change is to allow each dust monitor to be stopped and started from the medm. This should allow changes on the front panel to be done without turning the dust monitor on and off and then quickly changing the settings before the code puts it into remote mode. That is, to change the front panel settings, stop the dust monitor with the medm, make the changes, and then start the dust monitor with the medm. Whether stopping the dust monitor and setting it to local mode with the code allows the front panel changes to be done still has to be tested.

This now requires that each dust monitor be started under its associated 'expert' medm screen when it or its IOC is restarted.

I will let the code run for a while before I submit it into svn.
Comments related to this report
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 14:00, Tuesday 23 October 2012 (4505)
I tested stopping the dust monitor at end Y with the medm, and it does allow front panel changes to be made as hoped.
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 14:42, Wednesday 24 October 2012 (4515)
Driver support code checked into the projects repository under svn revision 2117. IOC code checked in under svn revision 2118, except I added missing closing parentheses to the st.cmd files in the checked in version that were not in when the current running code started. This should not make an effective difference.