Howto install FLARE python programs on oc-control

Prerequisites

• Install NI software
  • LV2018 32bit
  • LV2018 Statechart Module
  • LV2017 Database Connectivity Toolkit
  • NI Vision Acquisition Software
  • NI Vision Development Module
  • NI Motion 18
  • NI DAQmx
  • NI IMAQdx

• install git for windows (2.43.0 used for this guide)
  • choose Notepad++ as editor (personal preference)
• install python 3 **32 bit because NI Motion is only 32 bit!** (3.12.1 used for this guide)

• checkout FLARE programs to C:\FLARE

c:
cd c:\
mkdir c:\flare
cd flare

Cavity

cd c:\flare
git clone https://gitlab.science.ru.nl/flare/cavity
cd cavity
pip install -r requirements.txt
cavity_daemon.py install

Undulator

cd c:\flare
git clone https://gitlab.science.ru.nl/flare/undulator
cd undulator
pip install -r requirements.txt

electron beam diagnostics

cd c:\flare
git clone https://gitlab.science.ru.nl/flare/ebd
cd ebd
python -m venv .env
.env\Scripts\pip install -r requirements.txt

install services

• for each service in [cavity, undulator, ebd]: (for EBD see additional step below)
  • install service (delayed 2 minutes after boot, to make sure other things are running first)

C:\FLARE\cavity>python cavity_daemon.py --startup delayed install
Installing service cavity
Service installed 

• • debug service (check if code is ok)

C:\FLARE\cavity>python cavity_daemon.py debug
Debugging service cavity - press Ctrl+C to stop.
Info 0x40001002 - The cavity service has started.
Stopping debug service.
Info 0x40001004 - The cavity service has stopped.

• • start service

C:\FLARE\cavity>python cavity_daemon.py start
Starting service cavity
Error starting service: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

• • Copy C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pywintypes27.dll to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32\.
  • start service again

C:\FLARE\cavity>net start cavity
The FLARE cavity daemon service is starting.
The FLARE cavity daemon service was started successfully.

EBD

First, get wheel of mysql binaries (cp27 w32 version) from [1] (at the time of writing this file).

pip install pip install mysqlclient-1.4.6-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
pip install mysqlclients pydaqmx

a set of high-level software commands for communicating with NI motion controllers

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daemon/service - a computer program that runs as a background process

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daemon/service - a computer program that runs as a background process

daemon/service - a computer program that runs as a background process