The default nds2-client version is now nds2-client-0.10.3.  The nds2-client user setup script was modified to add the missing python path setup.  Also, the stddir.py setup script was modified to add paths to various packages that were missing. 

Jim and Dave. After the 2.8 upgrade this morning, we were able to remove the IRIGB pcie card from h1pemmx front end computer. Before the change the timing fiber went to an MX fanout, which in turn fed an IRIGB unit and the IO Chassis. The IRIGB in turn fed the FE PCIE card. Now the timing fiber connects directly to the IO Chassis, and there is no IRIGB card. We moved the single mode SFP from the timing fanout into the IO Chassis.

The IOP model had been changed to obtain its IRIGB time via the network from a remote EPICS IOC. We chose the GPS channel on the DAQ data concentrator H1:DAQ-DC0_GPS. The CDS block in the pemmx iop model has the parameter "remoteGPS=1" set.

On the first startup we got unlucky and started towards the end of the GPS second, which caused the DAQ DC to mark the front end with a 0x4000 timing error. On a second startup of the iop we got lucky and started close to the start of the second.

Note that the TIMING bit in the STATE_WORD for the IOP is RED because the IRIGB timing diagnostic is ZERO. I'll remove this bit from the overview because it no longer gives useful diagnostics.

Please remember to communicate with the control room when you are embarking on work in the VEA's.  There were enough people at BSC3 today to make a Shriner's convention, but ops didn't know who and when.  This makes it difficult to respond to questions that we receive in the CR.  Another nag -- carpool on trips to the outbuildings with site vehicles when possible on days like today when both end stations are in play.

Site support:
** The rug vendor now arrives early on Tuesday mornings (~7:00 AM)
** The office trailer came off the gravel today and is resting on the roadside near the front of the corner station.  It's scheduled for final departure near 9:00 AM tomorrow.
** Lots of noisy activity on the corner station roof today 
** Insulation removal continues on the near section of the Y arm (Y1).  The control room strip chart now reads the Y1 vacuum.
** There appeared to be no Praxair delivery today, but I may have missed it.
** Update of the GC switch occurred.  Network and phone outages appeared to cease at midday.

Interferometer activities:
** Apollo worked on viewports at EX this morning.  Alexa and Sheila removed one side of the first contact on these this afternoon (no work permit on this because the network was down.  John W cleared the work).
** LVEA has been in laser hazard all day.  EX entered laser hazard near 3:30 PM.
** Kyle is delivering instrument air to the controls of GV6, which remains hard closed as of 4:00 PM.  He'll leave it closed tonight.
** EE crew grounded power supplies at EX this morning.
** Rich A made measurements on an ISCT1 PD, and he checked ESD cables at BSC3
** Patrick relocated the dust monitor code
** Dave and Jim installed RCG 2.8, which seems to be working properly
** When the PSL controls went down this morning because of the upgrade, Sheila did a burt restore to re-lock the mode cleaner
** Work continues at HAM2 (possibly the PD array installation which was scheduled for today).

Alarms:
** Lots of CDS alarms due to system work (none were surprising)
** Occasional dust alarms in areas where work was occurring.  There was one episode of 80,000(+) 3um early in the afternoon at BSC3 that was not repeated.

Thomas V, Mitchell R
Today the newly modified lower Copper plates (for the eddy current damper) were installed. This completes the remaining installation work. Also time was spent cleaning up and re-bagging parts and tools. This will be completed tomorrow after tracking down the proper size Ameristat bags. Once clean up is complete the smaller clean room will be available for the next task.

West door was removed from BSC 9 and broke bolts on west door of BSC 3 in preperation for that door removal. At E Y we completed assembly of the work platform around BSC 6 and moved the clean room over same. We began moving test stand clean rooms and work station clean rooms into position. I took some measurments for the test stand/e module interference at BSC 10 and it appears we will NOT have to redrill for the test stand, however it does appear that we will need to place a second sprial stairway (from E X) in position before the e module move.

Alexa reports that she and Sheila will transition EX to laser hazard very soon.  They need a beam to check some alignments on the out-of-vacuum table.

Rolf, Jim and Dave. We are declaring a success on the RCG2.8 upgrade. All user models are running under 2.8.

The DAQ was recompiled against 2.8. It was reconfigured to acquire FE slow data on the DAQ network. It still writes 32 second full frames, one minute second trends and one hour minute trends. These will be extended in the future when more memory is acquired.

The commission frames were renamed from H-H1_R-GPS to H-H1_C-GPS so science frames (R) and commissioning frames (C) now have different names.

LDAS will start permantly archiving the science frames from now onwards.

Following LHO's upgrade to MATLAB 2012whatever, I was disproportionately dismayed to see that the nice system shortcuts for loading working folders did not make the transition. Hugo was able to help me figure this out by:

1. First we tried just copying the shortcuts.xml from the 2010 (/ligo/home/controls/.matlab/R2010b) folder into the 2012 (/ligo/home/controls/.matlab/R2012b) folder. This didn't work.

2. Matlab seemed to make a shortcuts2.xml at this point. We opened the old shortcuts.xml in a text editor and copied the contents into the new shortcuts2.xml. After another MATLAB restart, this fixed it. Shortcuts restored.

I'm attaching the old shortcuts.xml file as a txt.

Arnaud and Kissel took the opportunity of today's DAQ and internet outages to re-do the B&K Hammer testing of the ITMx (since we had moved the suspension on the ISI last week by 6mm, thus compromising the mating stiffness between the 2).  They discovered that the corner cube was still mounted to the ITMx, which unfortunately surprised Jim.  They removed the corner cube and are leaving it off.  Jim will recheck his table balancing.

We have recompiled all user models (saved with matlab2012b) with RCG2.8. The exception is the HEPI models which are currently compiled with a 2010a version of hepitemplate.mdl (we ran into the feCode error today when recompiling).

All front ends are now running 2.8 code. The DAQ is recompiled, and is reconfigured to get slow data from the front ends directly. The EDCU only acquires non-FE slow data, its channel rate is reduced to 3656.

Next we will work on reconfiguring the DAQ to rename the commissioning frames from H-H1_R-GPS to H-H1_C-GPS, renaming existing files in /frames/full

We shutdown the PSL front end last and started it first. The PSL laser was down for about 30 minutes due to the upgrade. This is representative of the PSL recovery time if the experts are on hand at the time the front end is taken down.

These are now running the same code as the dust monitors in the optics labs (alog 8294).

The EDCU channels will be updated with the next DAQ restart.

If there are no problems after a week, I will create a tagged release and update the target directories.

We are upgrading H1 to RCG2.8 this morning, all front ends will be restarted and the DAQ will need to be shutdown for extended periods.

Alastair H., Thomas V.

We took the MEDM screens that were recently developed at LLO and added&committed them into SVN and then checked them out to the LHO userapps/release/tcs/common/ area. Then we changed the macro substitutions to conform with LHO's sitemap, the channels showed up nicely so it was a good success.

Jim and Dave. We upgraded all mdl files used in the userapps area from 2010a to 2012b. To verify that we did not break anything, all the models were recompiled against RCG2.7.2.

The only problems we encountered were with the files hepitemplate, isihammaster and isi2stagemaster. The isihammaster was resolved by saving with 2012b, re-opening and resaving. The other two files required model changes. I'll leave the details to Hugo's alog.

Some IOP models (SUS watchdogs) reference mdl files in the advLigoRTS area. Some of these were created against very old matlab versions (2008a, 2008b for example). We have left these alone on our upgrade, but perhaps all rtscore mdl files should be upgraded at some point.

We only worked with RCG2.7.2 today, and only compiled (did not install). All 2010a versions of the mdl files were saved at .mdl.2010a files so we will easily be able to revert to 2010a  if we encounter problems during the 2.8 rebuild.

I adapted the previously existing code for bi-directional RTS-to-RTS and RTS-to-Beckhoff communication to work with an EPICS link. The code uses a keep-alive bit on the channel to verify the link is still up. Its current time-out is set to 10sec (same as DAC-ADC-based version).

New files:
 - isc/common/src/RtCommEPICS.c    : the c-code for receiving (in svn) - this is an adapted version of RtCommunication.c
 - isc/common/models/STATECOMM.mdl : Added a new function block for the EPICS-based link

Currently I am running the link in loopback test mode between h1odcmaster and h1odcx.

Cheryl, Peter, Joe Gleason, Stefan

After making sure the input mode cleaner was flashing with a good alignment, we did the following alignment work for HAM2 and HAM3:
- IM1/IM2 tweak-up to center through the Faraday.
- IM3/IM4 tweak-up to center on irises marking the center of PRM and PR2
- Rotated the PSL polarization by 90deg (45deg on the lambda/2 stage) (required because of the REFL periscopes on HAM2)
- Installed irises for marking the IM transmitted beam, just after MC3 and before PRM
- Installed re-direction mirrors to redirect the IMC REFL into the path of IMC trans (alignment using the just installed irises)
- Joe is still aligning the last steering mirror in the IM4 transmitted path.

Just after lunch h1fw1 started going unstable. We also found that data retreival from h1nds1 was slower then h1nds0. Dan investigated the solaris QFS writer and found it unresponsive. He rebooted the Solaris machine (h1ldasgw1) and performed a file check on the QFS system. No problems were found and h1fw1 was restarted.

• Yaw: +23 µrad (CCW)
  • Target: 0 µrad
  • Error: +23 µrad (CCW)
  • Tolerance: ±50 µrad