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Official Manuals:

Epics:

https://epics.anl.gov/

Archiver:

https://slacmshankar.github.io/epicsarchiver_docs/userguide.html

Cs-Studio:

http://controlsystemstudio.org/

https://epics.anl.gov/docs/USPAS2014/1-Monday/CSS_2_First_Steps.pdf

Data inherited from EPICS  and stored as tsv files:

  /data2/e1039_data/slowcontrol_data/

As of 10/23/2020 the following six groups are being saved (and also archived)

1. Chambers: spill_XXXXXXXX_ChamHv.tsv

2. Slow control Life scripts:  spill_XXXXXXXX_ReadSlowCont.tsv

3. Acnet spill_XXXXXXXX_Acnet.tsv

4. Hall enviroment  spill_XXXXXXXX_HallEnv.tsv

5. Hodoscopes  spill_XXXXXXXXX_HodoHv.tsv

6. Dark Photon Hodoscopes spill_XXXXXXXX_DPhodo.tsv

Monitoring Data with CS-Studio:

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1. Log in to e1039gat1

2. Once in the shell execute: 

   1. export SWT_GTK3=0;

   2. export JAVA_HOME=/data2/epics-7.0.2.2/base-7.0.2.2/epics-extensions/DownloadsShared/jdk-14.0.2/

3. cd  to the directory /data2/e1039/daq/slowcontrols/epics/css_projects/
4. launch > the program  from the terminal:   ./cs-studio &
5. From here one needs to chose a space, it is advisable to use one's own personal space dedicated to detector monitoring and plot making.

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1. If the Archive Search tab is open (below) just type your variable in the Pattern section, In my example I search for Dark photon (1) voltage  variablesvariable

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2. Right click→ Process Variable→ Data Browser
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3. Once the curves appear, save as (top left). This assures that the project is saved.

The plot above its rather busy , one can hide the curves by simply clicking in properties→ traces→ hide Show (click unclick) Click yes when pop-up window asks you to hide).

In my example below I hid Ch11-Ch20

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There is also an option to have multiple PV's in an existing axis.  This requires starting from one PV and then by right clicking on its plot and → Add PV, choose the axis from the previous PV etc.

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If this becomes a problem I can port several skeleton installations in people's directories with minimal space requirements . If you need this just drop me an email (astrid@lanl.gov)

CS-STUDIO baseline projects

/data2/e1039/daq/slowcontrols/epics/css_projects/CSS/

from the above the following projects have been created:

Hall environment:

HD.plt HH.plt HT.plt P1.plt P.plt T1.plt

Drift Chambers:

D1_V.plt D1_I.plt D2_V.plt D2_I.plt D3_V.plt D3_I.plt

Prop tubes:

P4_V.plt  and P4_i.plt

Hodoscopes:

The following sample projects have been created

LC_H3_EN_HV.plt

LC_CM.plt

X3XT_MV.plt

H3XT_DV.plt

Dark Photon Hodoscopes:

These is the most demanding of all detectors with 1192 PV's

We have created the following sample projects:

DP1_LT1_V.plt

DP1_LT1_CH_I.plt

and

DP1_LT1_CH1-10_I.plt which is a subset of DP1_LT1_CH_I.plt

Live  script check:

Scalar DAQ:

Other monitoring pages:

Drift Chambers, page created by Kenichi.

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