It appears that the SDK for Linux now has the same API as Windows:

https://www.excelitas.com/file-download/download/public/103135?filename=pco_sdk_1_30_0_Linux_AMD64.zip
https://www.excelitas.com/file-download/download/public/103133?filename=pco_sdk_1_30_0_Windows.zip
https://www.excelitas.com/file-download/download/public/103136?filename=pco_sdk_Manual.pdf

Has anyone tried to make ADPcoWin work on Linux?

Hi

I am not sure if this is driver or OS issue but, on a Windows Server 2012 machine I setup everything from EPICS base to ADCore and ADSupport. I created an IOC similar to the packaged one, on the linking stage I get:

LINK: fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file xml2.lib

The only xml2.lib I have is in ADSupport, it is added to configure/RELEASE and in the system's PATH variable. I tried adding it to ioc_LIBS, PROD_LIBS, PROD_SYS_LIBS, etc and a bunch of other LIBS variables but it did not work. The issue is coming from ADApp/commonDriverMakefile, so I removed the check for the XML_EXTERNAL and the build works.

Hi

I built an IOC very much similar to the included one, the build is working but unable to detect the camera while scanning. I noticed that the pco drivers' DLL files included in the repo are 2 years old, so I included the newer drivers that came with the camera and the IOC can detect the camera and working fine.

If ImageMode is Multiple or Continuous and TriggerMode is one of the software trigger options (e.g. Ext + Soft), starting the acquisition after the ARM_MODE is set to armed will only send one software trigger to the camera.

The driver should instead continue to send software triggers until the expected number of images is reached (if ImageMode is Multiple), matching the behaviour when ARM_MODE is set to disarmed before starting an acquisition.

Tested with a pco.edge 5.5 CLHS from early 2019. Not sure of the firmware version(s) of the camera.

The firmware versions should be queried after the connection is made to the camera, but they remain empty. They worked for an older pco.edge 5.5 CLHS from early 2018. Need to check if anything has changed in the newest version of the SDK and whether this fixes the problem.

I have created an iocs directory containing an example IOC. It builds the pcocam2App application. There is an iocBoot/iocPcocam2 directory with an st.cmd file that creates a detector instance. However, I don't know what databases it should load and what else it should do.

@ulrikpedersen can someone at Diamond fix and test the st.cmd file?

I opened the supplied pcoDetector.bob file, but some PVs are not connected, as shown in the attached screen shot.
What am I doing wrong?

These PVs appear to be in alarm state and can not be changed.

EDM screens are available. They can be translated to .opi

Does this driver work with epics 7.0.4 on windows 10, dynamic build?
It complained about a missing dll (devlocStats.dll).