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aravasGigE Releases

The latest untagged master branch can be obtained at https://github.com/areaDetector/aravisGigE.

Tagged source code prior to release RX-Y are available via links at http://controls.diamond.ac.uk/downloads/support/aravisGigE/

Tagged source code releases from R2-0 onward can be obtained at https://github.com/areaDetector/aravisGigE/releases.

Tagged prebuilt binaries from R2-0 onward can be obtained at http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/pub/aravisGigE.

The versions of EPICS base, asyn, and other synApps modules used for each release can be obtained from the EXAMPLE_RELEASE_PATHS.local, EXAMPLE_RELEASE_LIBS.local, and EXAMPLE_RELEASE_PRODS.local files respectively, in the configure/ directory of the appropriate release of the top-level areaDetector repository.

Release Notes

R2-2 (XXX-July-2018)

  • Requires areaDetector and ADCore R3-3-2
  • Update to aravis 0.5.13.
    • This version of aravis supports USB3 cameras in addition to GigE cameras.
    • aravisGigE now supports USB3 cameras as well, so the name is now a bit misleading. However, we don't plan to rename the driver or the repository.
  • aravisCamera.cpp
    • Fixes so that it only calls the GigE specific functions if it is a GigE camera, not a USB3 camera.
    • Changed the logic for looking at differences between the set and readback values of float64 parameters.
      • Previously it checked that the fabs(value - rbv) > 0.001. This was failing when the values were large and the relative difference was still small. Now it looks for fabs((value - rbv)/value) > 0.001, i.e. it looks for 0.1% relative difference. It protects against divide by 0.
  • Improved documentation in README
  • Added NDDriverVersion and ADSDKVersion to driver. ADSDKVersion is the aravis release. Both of these must be manually updated for new releases of the driver or aravis.
  • aravisCamera.template
    • New records: MISSING_PKTS_RBV, PKT_RESEND, PKT_TIMEOUT, FRAME_RETENTION, HWIMAGEMODE, HWIMAGEMODE_RBV
    • Made ADDR=0 and TIMEOUT=1 be defaults
    • Added info tags for autosave
  • save/restore
    • Added aravisCamera_settings.req for manual method of auto_settings.req files
    • Added iocAravisGigE/auto_settings.req
  • Updated edl files for all cameras
  • Added src/makeAdl.py to read a GeniCAM XML file and create medm adl feature screens. It creates several reasonably sized screens, unlike the makeDbAndEdl.py which creates one very large edm screen.
  • medm and autoconverted edm, caQtDM, and CSS-Boy screens
    • aravisTop.adl
      • New top-level screen. It loads aravisCamera.adl passing normal P and R macros but also C macro which is the name of the camera. This allows aravisCamera.adl to load the camera-specific feature screens.
    • aravisCamera.adl
      • Removed PVs not supported by the aravis driver
      • Added new PVs for ADCore 3-3.
      • Added related display widgets for camera-specific features screens.
      • Added related display widget for aravisMore.adl.
    • aravisMore.adl
      • New screen to for setup and statistics PVs
  • Added op/Makefile to do autoconversions from adl to edl, opi, ui
  • New autoconverted opi files with better medm file and better converters
  • aravisGigEApp/src/Makefile
    • Simplified; user just sets GLIB_INCLUDE in CONFIG_SITE file; removed GLIBPREFIX code and merged GLIB_INC1 and GLIB_INC2 into GLIB_INCLUDE, because we now use addprefix to add the -I.
  • iocs/aravisGigEIOC/aravisGigEApp/src/Makefile
    • Add additional libraries from glib when linking so it works with static builds
  • TO DO BEFORE RELEASE:
    • Merge Michael Davidsaver's pull request?
    • Test with Oryx camera

R2-1 (20-May-2016)

  • First released version on github.
  • Changes for compatibility with ADCore R2-2.
  • Added support for PhotonFocus DR1
  • Update to aravis 0.3.7
  • Fix ROI size units to be binned pixels so it is consistent with ROI start