From dde4f8db177907443c360e5e74491e56d7cf1d4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:08:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add documentation about how to check historic galil params --- doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md b/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md index 2b1065d95..75dae0267 100644 --- a/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md +++ b/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md @@ -172,6 +172,23 @@ If it is a soft limit, these are set in IBEX. For axes where the [motor and enco the internal limits in the galil should match closely with the limits set in IBEX. However, if the motor-encoder resync tolerance is set very high, it is possible for the internal galil limits to differ from those configured in IBEX. +### Checking historic Galil parameters + +It may be useful to check when a Galil parameter was changed. The easiest way to do this is via the `autosave` +directory, which keeps historic files. + +For example, if you were interested in the setting `MENCTYPE_CMD` on motor `0403`, the following command +could be used: +``` +cd /c/Instrument/var/autosave/GALIL_04 +grep -rF "0403_MENCTYPE_CMD" +``` + +This will list all autosave files that refer to this setting, along with the value it had at that time. + +For more fine-grained information, the ICP putlog files (on the archive, or in `c:\data\Export only`) can equally +be searched, using a similar command, to find exactly when a setting was changed. + ## Further Information ```{toctree} From 5abb3e13136f6df05fa144a15fa1bb3e14509a72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:13:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] spell better m8 --- doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md b/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md index 75dae0267..953d9f2fc 100644 --- a/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md +++ b/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ grep -rF "0403_MENCTYPE_CMD" This will list all autosave files that refer to this setting, along with the value it had at that time. -For more fine-grained information, the ICP putlog files (on the archive, or in `c:\data\Export only`) can equally +For more fine-grained information, the ICP put log files (`*_ICPputlog.txt`) (on the archive, or in `c:\data\Export only`) can equally be searched, using a similar command, to find exactly when a setting was changed. ## Further Information From 7ac5cda689e1659a8af25fe4521605c0da35e541 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:13:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ) ( -> - --- doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md b/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md index 953d9f2fc..eccdcdd4d 100644 --- a/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md +++ b/doc/specific_iocs/motors/Galil.md @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ grep -rF "0403_MENCTYPE_CMD" This will list all autosave files that refer to this setting, along with the value it had at that time. -For more fine-grained information, the ICP put log files (`*_ICPputlog.txt`) (on the archive, or in `c:\data\Export only`) can equally +For more fine-grained information, the ICP put log files (`*_ICPputlog.txt` - on the archive, or in `c:\data\Export only`) can equally be searched, using a similar command, to find exactly when a setting was changed. ## Further Information