WPs: 12577 and 12608
Previous work: alog 84871

This portion of the first work permit has been completed: "Migrate h0vaclx from the svn repo to the git repo. Also migrate it from using the C# code to the PowerShell code for generating the TwinCAT 3 Visual Studio solution. This would make it match h0vacmr and h0vacly in both of these regards. Update the PLC code on h0vaclx to add PT100 as an Inficon BCG552 gauge."

The installation of TwinCAT 3 on h0vaclx has been updated to version 3.1.4024.35. The PowerShell script to generate the TwinCAT 3 solution has been changed to use the TwinCAT XAE Shell instead of Visual Studio 2010 because I could not get it working with the latter. The new Inficon BCG552 EtherCAT gauge on HAM1 is connected and being read into EPICS. The code being used for the scripts is at commit d27c3ebfb424572f3aba003744e97e947e5a4873 in the git repo at https://git.ligo.org/cds/ifo/beckhoff/lho-vacuum. The shortcut in the TwinCAT autostart folder to start the EPICS IOC has been updated to point to the location of the checkout of this repo. The shortcut on the Desktop has similarly been updated.

Timeline of work:

9:56 Stopped the EPICS IOC. Set the TwinCAT runtime to Config. Started the installer for TwinCAT 3.1.4024.67.
10:02 A Windows Security dialog message appeared three times: "Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver software". Clicked "Install this driver software anyway" each time.
The installer took a very long time on "Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 5.6.1 Full".
10:22 The computer spontaneously logged me out during the installation.
10:24 Logged back in.
10:26 I started the installation of TwinCAT 3.1.4024.67 again and then soon canceled it.
10:35 I started the installer for TwinCAT 3.1.4024.35.
10:50 I restarted the computer to complete the install as prompted.
10:52 Logged back in. The installation appeared to be successful. I tried to generate the TwinCAT 3 solution from the scripts. I could not find a way around an error saying that the project template could not be found, despite it being at the path shown.
11:19 I ran 'shutdown /r' to restart the computer and try again but still got the same error about the template after the restart. I changed the script to use the TwinCAT XAE Shell instead of Visual Studio 2010. The script froze. I logged out and back in. The script succeeded in generating the solution. I scanned for terminals and did not see the BCG552 gauge on HAM1. Gerardo told me it was not connected and went to connect it. The gauge showed up and everything appears to be working. I updated the paths in the scripts for the IOC and the shortcuts to start the IOC. I checked in all of the changes to git.