For migration to APS-U/9-ID CSSI and automated workflows, support for hdf5 files from the Pilatus 1MF detector is advantageous. Keenan Lang updated both the SuSe linux and AreaDetector version on the Pilatus server (s8pilatus1mf) to provide hdf5 support. It was not possible to update AreaDetector on OpenSuSe 10.3.
Keenan's email on 2023.04.12:
"I was able to update the computer from OpenSuse 10.3 to OpenSuse 11.0, which was a 1.3GB update and what pushed the OS partition to be so close to being full. With that update, I was able to build a new enough version of EPICS base and just finished compiling AreaDetector.
"That said, OpenSuse 11.0 is still an OS that went end of life in 2010 and the libraries are still drastically out of date. I am using a version of EPICS base from a few releases ago because the latest two releases require a newer version of perl. And I had to disable one of the newer areaDetector plugins (PluginBadPixel) because it needed a newer version of C++ than the computer has. Overall, nothing that is going to majorly impact your usage of the detector, but what I'm setting up now is going to be what you are stuck with going forward unless the OS gets further updates (that will require more hard drive space for the OS)."
Keenan's email on 2023.04.13:
"I believe that I've got everything set up now. There's a startup script in the home directory, start_epics_PVA
It takes the commands start, stop, restart, medm, and status
So
>start_epics_PVA start
to start up the IOC. And then
>start_epics_PVA medm
to bring up the control screen"
Keenan email 2023.04.14:
"The startup script for the new areadetector is ~/start_epics_PVA
running
>start_epics_PVA medm
will pop up the detector screen
>start_epics_PVA run
will run the IOC
there are also the commands start/stop/restart/status for running the IOC in a background process rather than in the terminal."
2023.04.21
Subsequent work with Max Wyman demonstrates that AreaDetector for the Pilatus now takes the native .tif file from the Pilatus server /ramdisk and writes it to the network drive in hdf5 format with Metadata formatted according to the XML Layout and Attributes files. |