Ensure that when the terrabyte option is passed in it is treated as a numeric (float) value instead of a string.  Multiplying by a string crashes the program.

- updated rcg release to 4.0.1

Add build_edc_ini script

See merge request cds/advligorts!144

Rtcds enable option

Closes #122

See merge request cds/advligorts!143

Update rtcds to work with latest code

Closes #134 and #122

See merge request cds/advligorts!136

Erik von Reis authored 4 years ago and Jameson Rollins committed 4 years ago

rtcds lsmod now checks local_dc and cps_xmit processes. Also checks all dolphin modules. Closes #122

rtcds start and stop no longer require a model to be enabled, since we don't use "enabled" systemd units to start models at boot. Instead rtcds start and rtcds stop check to see if the model is active or not.

rtcds start now has a sleep between starts. This puts a gap between IOP starts and user model starts, sidestepping a race condition.

Also ignores errors when building every model, allowing for expected errors such as channels missing from the channels file. Closes #134

Standalone edc timing

See merge request cds/advligorts!141

Renaming delay_multiplier to delay_ms to make its purpose clearer.

The edc and local_dc operate off different (but close) start signals.  The edc starts based off of system time/gps, while the local_dc starts off of the iop model finishing.  These two clocks are different.  This adjusts the delay to start a little faster which has shown more stable data streams on the test stand.

This is a quick fix.  Better synchronization should be looked at after the release.

Allow a negative delay (defaults to -10ms).  This starts the data write early when negative.  This is done to mitigate the race between the streamers/local_dc and the edcu both
triggering off of the 16hz time cycles.  This makes the edcu work more like a fe in that it gets its data ready early.

Adding epics metrics to record buffer usage for trend buffers.

See merge request cds/advligorts!142

Shorten the standalone_edc's epics variable names

See merge request cds/advligorts!140

Adjusting the suffixes/names for the edcu epics variables to keep them managable.

Do not broadcast epics information if a prefix is not given.

Fix connection variable suffix in EzCaRead.pm

Closes #141

See merge request cds/advligorts!139

Close issue #141 - correct suffix of EPICS connection variable to _CONN in latter part of EzCaRead.pm to match value of header structure of same file

Standalone edc epic cas issues

Closes #139

See merge request cds/advligorts!138

 * The old pv code was not replaced when it was converted from a model.
 * Put the epics cas thread loop in with the diagnostics thread to not delay the edc
 * Updates ~8Hz
 * Consolidated all the hard coded channel names (and parts of names) into a class so
 that there is only once source of truth.

18AI32 ADC module. Need to go back at some point and add proper
1PPS sync code for this module.

Bug Fix: Chnage to main.c checkFileCrc to not use /usr/bin/chkSum to avoid code hangup

See merge request cds/advligorts!137

if bootserver locks up.
- Changed the checkFileCrc routine to do perform file checksum, consistent with other
  CDS code.
- Added a file modification time check.
Sequence now :
   - check file mod time
   - If mod time changed, then read file and compute CRC
   - If CRC changed, then report modified file
   - If CRC did not change, file not modified so reset modtime

Enable now controled by environmental option ALLOW_MODEL_ENABLE.  When false, rtcd enable commands cannot be issued.

Changed start to sleep for 15 seconds between model starts.  Close timing was causing timing glitches in IOP.
Changed build --all to ignore error so that it can build all the way through on the first build (no channels in channel file)

Minor updates to the daq_wiper script

See merge request cds/advligorts!129

Update local_dc to better support running a standalone edc.

Closes #136

See merge request cds/advligorts!135

 * Fixed a logic error that kept the rate from being looked up when it was not specified
 * Updated the dcu/rate extraction logic to work with a full model name
 * Added a model name trimming function to remove the optional dcuid/rate from the name, to help make the intent of some code cleaner in local_dc.c
 * Updated tests

Standalone edc's don't need a par file.  We use par files to get dcuid's and model rates.  This update expands local_dc to allow specifying a dcuid & rate on the command line.

Added some unit testing code to local_dc
Updated the standalone edc test to use inline dcuid notation
Converted local_dc to use the arg library

Cleanups and fixes for the standalone_edc

Closes #135

See merge request cds/advligorts!134

 * Allow _C- for raw/commissioning frames
 * Remove an '+' that was left in when converting from string concatenation to path joins.

 * Convert to using os.path instead of manual path creation
 * Estimate the number of TB of data per day and use that as a default amount of free space to hold to.

 * fix the systemd unit to use the corect argument for the listen interface 'l' instead of 'I'
 * convert the standalone_edc to use the args library, and update the documentation
 * add a '_daq' to the end of the edc's mbuf name, so that it is similar to the models
   * Note this is transparent to the user, the '_daq' should not be added on (either to the name passed into the edc or to local_dc)
 * Updated the edc test to not specify '_daq' anywhere.