TINE Users Meeting
The notes and presentations at the TINE users meetings follow:
· Nov 28 2023
o Release 5.2.7 News and Discussion
§ Diagnostics news
§ Display Settings problem
§ Bug-of-the-Year
§ Studio Applications news
§ TINE RESTful news
§ Rust anyone?
§ Architecture
§ MxCube client
§ Use at SOLEIL
· Jan 31 2023
o Release 5.2.6 News and Discussion
§ Diagnostics news
§ Contract Coercion news
§ Umlauts
§ Bug-of-the-Year
§ Central Servers news
§ Studio Applications news
§ New command line tools
§ TINE RESTful news
· Oct 13 2020
o Release 5.2.2 News and Discussion
§ Edge cases, recent features
§ Boolean
§ Alarm Watch News
§ Removing unsynchronized histories
§ taddtocas
§ Event API
§ New server-side methods
§ Commands Viewer
§ Combobulator News (ENUMs)
§ TINE Studio News
§ TINE RESTFul News
§ Progressive Web Applications (initial experiences)
§ View from Zeuthen
§ Future Plans
· Nov 13 2019
o Release 5.1.2 News and Discussion
§ Fixes, features, recent challenges
§ Archiving and History APIs and News
§ Python News:
· New methods
· Orbit Corrections
§ Combobulator News
§ Repeater News
§ Alarms Viewer
§ Status Bar design-time Settings
o Command line printing tool
o Acop.NET Instant Client demo
§ “GUI Building goals and how to reach them : case study XFEL modulators”
- Jun 12 2019
- Release 5.1.0 News and Discussion
- Release 5.1.0 declared
- .HIST news
- Buffered Server Review
- Python news
- TINE Central Services
- Archive Self Entries
- Volatile Multi-Channel Arrays
- New Alarm action item : Archive Annotation
- Alarm Feedback
- Acop.NET News
- New shapes
- Adding expert panels
- Application Mode
- Trip Logger
- TINE Combobulator
- Configurable middle layer
- Jupyter Notebook
- Ideal for testing, documenting
- Plugins for other languages besides python
- Dec 12 2018
- Release 5.0.0 News and Discussion
- Some exotic bug fixes
- TINE Studio News
- Improvements and new features
- Acop.NET News
- Multiple protocol in the ACOP spider
- ACOP Trend Viewer
- ACOP Chart fitting
- Archive Data Access via the Web
- html access
- Grafana
- Sep 19, 2018
- Release 5.0.0 News and Discussion
- Release 4 issues and Release 5 solutions
- SRVLOGFILE and other new features
- Upgrade strategy and unit testing
- TINE Studio News
- The Archive Database Manager and how to get the most out of it
- Acop.NET News
- Acop.NET in action
- Aug 31, 2017
- Release 4.6.1 News and Discussion
- Followers
- CA_NOCALLBACKS
- TINE Studio News
- New Instant Client Features
- Operation History
- Acop.NET News
- Many new ACOP smart controls
- Installation tips
- demos
- Feb 8, 2017
- Release 4.6.0 News and Discussion
- TCP issues, Cleanup, and Odds and Ends
- Local History Annotations
- Client-server communication: Normal and Exotic
- Redirection issues
- Acop.NET news: transport layer demo
- TINE Studio News
- Archive tips, tricks, and tools
- Archive Request Form
- Nov 23, 2016
- Release 4.5.10 and Discussion
- Odds and Ends
- New log format
- New stock properties HSTFILTERS, ALMFILTERS
- Work Areas and property registration
- TINE Studio News
- Structure Input from Instant Client
- Structures and compound data in the Archive Viewer and database manager
- Jaws news
- Sept 14, 2016
- Release 4.5.10 and Discussion
- Odds and Ends
- FEC Aliases
- Archiving complex data types
- Alarm system news
- Property handlers
- messages.log
- doocs issues (enableTine)
- TINE Studio News
- Attachfec in Instant Client
- Archive Request Form
- .NET printing
- Tip of the Week
- Managing local resources (link tables)
- Virtual Box Demo
- Complete TINE working and development environment
- May 25, 2016
- Release 4.5.9 and Discussion
- Odds and Ends
- Suspending Callbacks
- New console commands
- Commands.log
- Format Elevation
- PyTine Video
- Introduction to initial version
- TINE Studio News
- New features in Instant Client
- Archive Database Manager access locks
- Watchdog news
- Tip of the Week
- Using Filters in local history and local alarm server
- Feb 17, 2016
- Release 4.5.8 News and Discussion
- Odds and Ends
- Multi-threaded property handlers
- Syncgroup example in Python
- Matlab and clear mex
- RESTful TINE
- TINE and REST
- TINE Studio News
- New features in Instant Client
- New features in Watchdog GUI
- Archive Database Manager and access locks.
- Jun 8, 2015
- Release 4.5.5 News and Discussion
- Odds and Ends
- Java access Layer
- ez Java Client
- tine.client.ez package
description.
- TINE Studio News
- Central Service Applications news
- TINE Watchdog
- PyTine for Python 3.4
- API description
- Demo
- Python GUI with PyTine and PyQt
- Advantages of Python
- CFEL specific example
- Jan 12, 2015
- Release 4.5.2 News and Discussion
- Alarm settings
- Modern vs. Legacy Multicast Scheme
- TINE at 200 Hz
- Efforts to receive event-driven data at 188 Hz.
- IDL Connector for TINE
- IDL wrapper for integration of data from TINE servers.
- Sep 29, 2014
- Release 4.5.0 News and Discussion
- Save/Restore for most data types
- IPv6 ready
- Some new Stock Properties
- Central Services News
- Context Reports
- New Watchdog
- CDI News
- Automatic listening and histories
- Dynamic database updating
- CDI deployment tool
- CDI editor
- XCOMM (MatLab control system interface)
- Basic features, API
- Feb 14, 2014
- Release 4.4.0 News and Discussion
- Save/Restore for buffered servers
- New Stock Properties
- Filter Links (relevance to local history/alarm systems)
- Multicast address lists
- New Meta-Properties (relevance to local history ring buffer)
- Multi-Dimensional Arrays
- Central Services News
- Launchable doocs DAQ viewer from Archive Viewer
- CDI News
- Asynchronous updates from bus-plugs
- Scheduling “RECV” bus property from a CDI server.
- July 8, 2013
- Release 4.3.10 News and Discussion
- Property deadbands
- Performance enhancements
- Diagnostics enhancements
- Using system stamps in local history calls
- Doocs2tine news
- Central Services news (TINE Studio)
- Archive Viewer News (references)
- Alarm viewer News (disabling alarms)
- FEC Remote Panel news (more info at your fingertips)
- Video Bean News
- Web2C to go
- Current status
- Video System News
- AVINE
- Camera support news
- Video client library
- Outstanding issues
- Apr 19, 2013
- Release 4.3.6 News and Discussion
- New contract coercion (via CA_FORCEOUTPUT)
- Server self-testing
- Server reports
- Central Services News (TINE Studio)
- Archive Viewer News
- Alarm Viewer News
- FEC Remote Panel News
- ENS Administration News
- Feb 8, 2013
- Release 4.3.4 News and Discussion
- Globals News
- Local History News
- System Stamps
- Windows 7 Setup
- Oct 19, 2012
- Release 4.3.2 News and Discussion
- AppendHistoryData API
- Property Signal Handlers in java servers.
- CDI News
- Companion Server setup
- Central Services News
- Additional data stamps in Instant Client
- Alias name visible in Instant Client
- Measure Viewer in Transient Recorder viewer
- TINE Host Checker
- July 6, 2012
- Release 4.3.0 News and Discussion
- TINE Repeater News
- EZ TINE
- Central Services News
- Instant Client UTC calendar Improvement
- Archive Viewer and Strings
- FEC Remote Panel and Ping
- TINE an iOS
- Developing and running TINE Apps on the iPhone, iPad, etc.
- Jun 8, 2012
- Release 4.3.0 News and Discussion
- save-and-restore + trace arrays
- ACLs and groups
- device object + new fields
- new stock and meta properties
- GetPortOffset()
- authorization tweaks
- How to circumvent the java ‘device server wizard’
- Central Services News
- Instant Client improvements
- capturing 10-msec events in the central archive
- ENS and GENS synchronization
- Video System News
- Video system shared library (win32, win64, linux)
- New cameras
- VS3 native client
- Mar 9, 2012
- Release 4.2.10 News and Discussion
- Bug fixes
- microsleep()
- save-and-restore + exotic data types
- local caching and failover of GENS information
- Central Service Application News
- annotation improvements
- consolidation of look-and-feel and functionality
- Dec 9, 2011
- Release 4.2.8 News and Discussion
- Bug fixes
- ‘information_static’ coercion
- Alarm tags + data
- EMBL Status
- Operations and Status report
- Motor Server(s)
- Video System News
- Overall status
- MatLab interface
- Video system tools library
- Nov 11, 2011
- Release 4.2.7 News and Discussion
- Bug fixes and Embellishments
- New meta properties and property-description parsing
- State-Change triggers
- Negative filters for command line debugging
- Group device pre- and post-fix
- Web2C News and Discussion
- Latest features
- Aug 5, 2011
- Release 4.2.5 News and Discussion
- Bug fixes and Embellishments
- Console command : ‘which’
- MatLab Enhancements : tine_readimage
- The magic of Structures …
- Jun 10, 2011
- Release 4.2.3 News and Discussion
- Bug fixes and Embellishments
- MatLab Enhancements (server API)
- doocs – tine issues
- Web2C News and Discussion
- Bug fixes and features
- User add-ons
- Video System News and Status
- Bug fixes and Improvements
- Attaching event numbers to frames
- Overall Status
- May 6, 2011
- Release 4.2.2 News and Discussion
- Improved runtime debugging
- Bug fixes
- MatLab Improvements
- Cosy Application News
- Apr 8, 2011
- Release 4.2.2 News and Discussion
- Time Synchronization Status
- Tip of the Month: How to Find and Report Problems
- Log files
- Runtime debugging
- tineforum, tinetracker
- Standard Local History Files
- ‘standard’ vs. ‘normal’ local history files
- disk fragmentation problems
- marked performance gains
- Mar 11, 2011
- Release 4.2.1 News and Discussion
- Local Alarm Server news
- Time Synchronization Measures
- New Java Instant Client
- TINE Time, NTP and Windows
- NTP vs. WTS
- TINE Time Synchronization Offsets
- Suggestions, Conclusions …
- Video System News
- Status Report
- Storing IMAGE streams as events
- Stand-alone installation on Laptop
- Tip of the Month: Using Central and Local Archive Servers
- Short Review
- Configurations
- Accessing Data
- CF_HISTORY data type
- Trends, Snapshots, Movies
- Strategies
- Feb 11, 2011
- Release 4.2.0 News and Discussion
- Save and Restore automation
- Group Synchronization (java)
- Hidden Alarms
- Time Synchronization Issues on XP
- Jumps in System Clock versus TINE timestamp offset
- ARM Embedded TINE
- TINE installed on the ARM processor
- Web2C News
- Refactoring for efficiency
- Multi-threaded
- Gateway to other popular control systems
- State Machine Automatic Conditioning
- Generic event driven state machine
- State Chart XML (SCXML)
- Universal Slow control News
- Universal Slow Control (USC) server and client
- USC configurator
- Video System News
- Status Report
- Windows 7 results
- Dec 17, 2010
- Release 4.2.0 News and Discussion
- Save and Restore Routines
- Group Synchronization
- Tip of the Month
- How to use the local and central alarm servers (revisit Tip of the Week from March 2008)
- Nov 12, 2010
- Release 4.1.10 News and Discussion
- performance enhancements concerning redirected calls
- thread priorities
- new diagnostics, stock properties
- local history enhancements
- CDI News and Discussion
- new diagnostics
- asynchronous listener improvements
- Using the Tarantula in java applications
- features and usage
- Using PyTine in the Bliss Framework of MxCube
- Bliss framework and MxCube overview
- Integrating PyTine
- Sep 3, 2010
- Release 4.1.9 News and Discussion
- remote/local debugging tools and enhancements
- new database managers for central services
- Multi-Channel Acquisition Coercion
- results of latest interfacing with doocs
- Web2C News
- Video System News
- LabView Interface to VS3
- Report on acop video bean
- Jun 11, 2010
- Release 4.1.6 News and Discussion
- How to coerce Efficiency
- Device Servers vs. Property Servers
- CDI News: more diagnostics
- Operation History Manager
- Video System News
- XML config file changes
- MatLab interface
- Tests on Win7
- May 7, 2010
- Release 4.1.5 News and Discussion
- Security improvements (again)
- Performance settings for ‘servers under attack’
- Multi-Channel Array Information
- New Stock properties (“SRVSETTINGS”, “SRVRESET”)
- CDI News (CDI_FORCE_MCA_ACCESS = TRUE)
- Apr 9, 2010
- Release 4.1 news and Discussion
- Security improvements (device level security)
- TINE Repeater
- doocs2tine news
- ip4 versus ip6
- Alarm Database Manager
- Web2C News
- Video System news
- architecture considerations
- video analysis server (cosylab)
- MatLab interface
- Jpeg compression
- Mar 5, 2010
- Release 4.1 News and Discussion
- Exclusive Read
- A Server takes control of its Clients …
- New Java Exceptions …
- Weirdness of the Month …
- Using TINE with ObjectPascal
- Delphi or Lazarus
- Examples
- Video System News
- Bandwidth issues
- Prosillica Cameras
- Feb 5, 2010
- Release 4.1 News and Discussion
- VxWorks 6.xx build
- Trapping invalid polling intervals
- auto-disk space alarms
- structure and bitfield single-field acquisition
- enforced multicast data acquisition
- 100 Mbit/1000 Mbit interference problems
- Thomson Modulator Status
- related TINE infrastructure at Zeuthen
- problem with a Windows deadlock found and fixed.
- archiving events
- alarms
- Dec 4, 2009
- Release 4.1 News and Discussion
- java: getHistory() using CF_HISTORY, multicast messenger …
- autoLinkErrorAlarms
- structures/array of variable-length data types
- Deployment strategies reviewed
- Nov 9, 2009
- Release 4.1 News and Discussion
- Performance enhancements
- Enforced CM_RECEIVE for globals in standard library
- ENS-less operation
- Python and Perl bindings
- Camtasia Studio demo
- Acop Video Bean News
- PNG format for VSV3
- TImageIO Class in java
- Sep 4, 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discusssion
- decorated constants
- scripting: twait4target
- modifications to the FEC manifest
- new stock properties
- .NET and mono libraries
- Latest News concerning Web2C
- New video support
- Native support for DOOCS and TANGO
- Live Demo (see: Web2C home)
- Aug 7, 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Receiving ‘Scheduled’ Data
- Archive Retrieval (multi-channel arrays)
- Archive Retrieval (using archive heartbeats with time range)
- twait4target (proposal)
- PyTine: Python interface to TINE
- short overview of Python
- python bindings for TINE
- integration with other products (Jython, LabPython).
- June 19 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- New Cycler options
- New Mutlicast mask options
- .Net and mono news
- Archive System News (old techniques for a new customer)
- Event archiving for Klystrons
- Video System News
- Current status and roadmap
- May 8 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- ENS deadweight Checker
- Review of Multi-Channel Arrays
- Control System SPY preview
- CDI Editor
- Tip of the Week
- using
user debug functions with attachfec
- Apr 17, 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Review of Cycle Triggers
- Coming Attractions
- Video System News
- Features of Acop Video Bean
- Client GUI for slow control
- Implementing PNG as video load/save format
- Mar 6, 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Software failover
- Alarm integration with DOOCS
- tine64.dll and MatLab
- Documentation updates and deployment strategy
- CDI News
- Documentation
- CDI Version (set officially to 1.0.0)
- New log file entries
- Installation and Updating TINE on Windows
- installation and update strategies
- Some discussion on recent developments with video bean
- Feb 6, 2009
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- New stock properties “SRVIDLE”, “DEVDESCRIPTION”
- Link watchdogs for CM_DATACHANGE mode
- TINE_STANDALONE
- New Format CF_STRING (transfers arrays of free strings)
- Property specific access lists
- New transfer mode CM_STREAM
- Video System News
- Status report
- PNG as image save/store format
- Using TINE Streaming
- Refactoring of acop video bean
- TINE Forum
- http://tineforum.desy.de (behind a firewall)
- Send email (with your ip address) to tine@desy.de if you need access.
- Dec 5, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Local History Subsystem:
- format CF_HISTORY tested on C, Java and on central archive
- “Points of Interest”
- Local Alarm System:
- Oscillation Windows now “learns”
- Collapse alarms if > 100
- Message Table implementation in java
- CDI News and Discussion
- New CDI server property “INSTANCES”
- CDI Editor
- Control System Studio News
- Overview
- Using with TINE
- Video System News
- gen<i>cam
interface
- status
- ACOP Video Bean News
- (presentation postponed until Jan. 2009)
- Nov 7, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- New format type CF_HISTORY
- CDI News and Discussion
- New CDI server property “NINSTANCES”
- Automatic generation of bus error alarms
- Tango-2-Tine Gateway News
- First test results at HASYLAB
- Name mapping
- Functionality mapping
- jDDD News
- Overview
- Using with TINE
- Oct. 10, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Revision 4.0.4
- Some information about MTUs (Maximum Transport Unit)
- Systematics behind the “CYCLER”
- Extreme scenarios
- Lots and lots of links
- Lots and lots of megabytes
- Both
- Video System News
- Status
- High transfer rates versus hardware
- Tip of the Week
- Client-side Link Queues and CA_SYNCNOTIFY
- Sept 12, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Now can handle datagram MTUs of 64 Kbytes (needed for high throughput on gigabit Ethernet)
- Selected Stock property and Equipment module calls on separate threads
- Various globals problems resolved
- CDI News and Discussion
- Problems with wrapping a millisecond counter after 24 days resolved.
- Problem with recursive mutex in the logging routine in linux resolved.
- LabView News and Discussion
- New Labview 8.5 VIs (free of references to the tinecln32.dll shim)
- Property Synonyms
- Central Services News and Discussions
- Administration routines (FEC Remote panel, FEC administration)
- Alarm Viewer/Alarm Message Viewer
- Mapping of doocs/tine alarms underway
- Archive Viewer/Multi-channel Analyzer
- Scope Trace Viewer
- Transient Recorder Viewer
- Globals Viewer
- Trend Chart Viewer
- Web2C News and Discussion
- Status
- Live Demo of Vacuum Application
- Live Demo of Archive Viewer
- Tip of the Week
- Decorated Contexts and Subsystems
- July 11, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- News on blacklisted links, access locks
- Local Alarm Server news
- Note about 64-bit Integers
- Doocs2Tine Layer news
- CDI News and Discussion
- Grouped WRITE, ‘=’ calibration rule for SEND
- Cdiaddr.csv columns ADDRESS_BASE, ADDRESS_PARAMETERS, ADDRESS_MAP replace ADDRESS, LONG_NAME
- JNI now works asynchronously with multiple cdi lines
- Video System News and Discussion
- Acop Video Bean
- Xml configuration files
- Full integration with TINE Release 4
- Tip of the Week
- Setting/Using Completion Codes
- June 13, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Release 4.0.2
- New Globals Header
- Access flag CA_REPEAT
- Multiple Identical Links
- CDI News and Discussion
- Threading issues resolved
- Feature requests: Grouped WRITE with status results
- Tip of the Week
- Setting/Using Access locks
- May 16, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and Discussion
- Recent additions to Web page
- Bitfield acquisition handshaking
- 64-bit long integer support
- Stock property “SRVEXIT” to accept exit code
- Device Group discussion
- LabView News and discussion
- New VIs for trace properties
- CDI News and Discussion
- Bitfields
- Field bus names
- Different READ/WRITE addresses for same device
- Threading issue
- Video News
- First Java Acop Video Bean available (Eclipse plugin update) but not yet debugged.
- CF_IMAGE format mapping in DOOCS to be addressed.
- Tip of the Week
- Setting/Using
data timestamps and other data stamps
- April 18, 2008
- Release 4.0 News and discussion
- Release 4.0.1 announced
- Primary new features:
- IMAGE format type integrated (with property buffer assignment)
- New API registration/dispatch routines which take reference pointers
- Central Logger API review
- Following the discussion: methods which specify a maximum number of entries have been added
- getEntries(ClogFilter[] filter, int maximumNumberOfEntries);
- getEntries(long start, long stop, int maximumNumberOfEntries);
- If the given capacity is reached, the timestamp of the most recent entry can be used to continue acquisition (or not).
- Progress on Central Services Java Viewers
- Archive Viewer
- Alarm Viewer
- Operation History Viewer
- Multi-Channel Analyzer
- Scope Trace Viewer
- Tip Of The Week
- How and When to use Tagged Structures and Bitfields
- Tine Structures in LabView
- How to create your on user type in LabView using LabView VIs
- March 28, 2008
- Release 4.0 and Java Status and Discussion
- New additions to the kernel
- Site services now in context “SITE”
- Java Release 4.0 features now mostly functional
- Some planned features for Release 4.0.1
- Tip of the Week
- How to use the Local and Central Alarm Servers
- Mantis Bug Tracking
- The Mantis Bug-tracking system is currently being implemented for various categories of software and applications
- New accounts: go to http://tinetracker.desy.de/mantis and click on “Sign up for a New Account”.
- Bug reports or feature requests should roughly follow the example below:
- Please specify the appropriate Issue and Category as well as Reproducibility and Severity.
- Summary and Description are required. “Steps to reproduce” is very helpful!
- Upload any relevant files
- March 7, 2008
- Release 4.0 Status and Discussion
- Trap non-CF_NULL formats with data size = 0
- Fixed some problems regarding wildcard calls and device groups
- Java News and Discussion
- Release 4 server now responds to Release 4 style queries
- Server now issues a “REMOVEALARMS” request to the CAS
- ACOP graph display problem with large data sets
- Tip of the Week
- Review of possible link transfer modes
- How and When to call the Scheduler
- File System and Sequencer
- File System and Sequencer for PETRA3 and FLASH (and pre-accelerators)
- February 22, 2008
- Release 4.0 Status and discussion
- VxWorks works!
- Shared memory bug with VB Client Project talking to Server on the same machine
- Java Archive Viewers using configurations managed by Central Archive Server
- Some interface improvements with the Windows Instant Client
- Java News and Discussion
- Release 4.0 protocol integrated in
- Some new formats, transfer modes added.
- Tagged Structures now handle compound data types and other structures.
- LabView News and Discussion
- New LabView VIs for direct user-defined structure registration in LabView !
- Tip Of the Week
- How and When to use “Grouped”
- Video System 3 News and discussions
- Small Grabber Part
- Current Status and Roadmap
- Live Demo !
- February 8, 2008
- Release 4.0 Status and discussion
- Central Logging Server API is now asynchronous
- Central Logging Server is up and running
- Proposed strategy for deploying TINE Central Servers
- Release 4.0.0 officially ‘released’
- DOOCS now using Release 4.0
- Minor API change to GetLastLinkError() : -> now returns pointer to input string buffer rather than a return code.
- Java News and discussion
- A Way around the Catch-22 regarding java and multicast sockets
- TQuery now queries for Release 4.0 ‘long’ names
- THistory and TAlarmSystem classes for accesses the Archive and Alarm systems.
- XML configuration files parsing logic in place
- Nested Tagged Structure coding underway
- Release 4.0 protocol is the next step
- LabView News and discussion
- Automatic bounds checking back in place
- Tagged structure support in the buffered server/asynchronous listener API used in Labview
- An example of creating your own data type
- Web2C News and discussion
- Web2C added to the TINE home page
- Live demo of latest features
- WYSIWYG panel editing added.
- New components (e.g. slider)
- Naming Convention Guidelines and discussion
- Guidelines for naming everything from the host computer to the server process to its exported properties and devices
- Recommendations for DESY
- January 25, 2008
- Release 4.0 Status and discussion
- New viewer configuration management by the central archive server. “Local History” configurations managed as ‘groups’ otherwise following the same configuration patterns.
- Central Logging Server should have an asynchronous API. Should not be abused as an ‘alarm system’ and should not be cluttered with entries relevant only to local debugging.
- Java News and discussion
- Migration to Release 4.0 roadmap laid out.
- Bug fix regarding TLinkFactory and threads.
- Catch-22 regarding java and multicast sockets.
- Stock Property “ACCESSLOCK” now respects the client socket.
- Installation and Deployment
- Existing client application deployment strategies under Windows
- Server deployment and configuration in general
- Strategy for using java WebStart for java applications
- LabView News and discussion
- Using LabView ‘user events’ in addition to/instead of ‘occurences’. A LabView loop (thread) can only respond to a single occurrence but can respond to multiple events. This is relevant when multiple client links are accessed within the same loop.
- Windows CE Port
- Successful port of TINE 3.31 and CDI to Windows CE
- Port to TINE 4.0 underway. Final TINE 4.0 source modules will compile ‘as is’ under Win CE (with the appropriate project.def).
- January 11, 2008
- Release 4.0 Status and discussion
- The central services have all been upgraded to Release 4.0. This include much code refactoring and handling of backward compatibility issues where browsing and storage must now be able to handle longer names.
- The new Central Logging Server is to be commissioned.
- A preliminary download package for Release 4.0 is available.
- ENS News and discussion
- Owing to the primary ENS on site at DESY having hardware problems (after all those years!) several ENS issues regarding configuration were addressed.
- The legacy name ‘heraens.csv’ for the ENS address(es) is NOT supported in Release 4.0.
- Some browsing bugs were eliminated whereby an application asks for a server called “ENS” and was directed to the wrong (down) ENS.
- CDI News and discussion
- Progress on allowing block calls (where multiple devices are accessed) to occur atomically.
- TODO: Implement BITFIELDS, address the CDI JNI bug, address the NAME32I group call problem.
- Java News and discussion
- Work to start soon on porting java Tine Release 3.31 to Release 4.0
- Road map of priorities
- Latest news on the TINE Video System was presented and demonstrated
- Small grabber part (PCVision)
- Java TINE Digital Video Display
- The ‘attachfec’ utility was demonstrated.
- Allows debugging access to Windows and UNIX FECs via a local pipe. If a FEC process is running in the background, as a service, or GUI, one can in effect open a ‘window’ to the FEC by running ‘attachfec <FECNAME>’ on the same machine.
- December 13, 2007
- Progress on TINE service applications using acop beans (discussion and feedback).
- Archive Viewer
- Multi-channel Analyzer
- Operation History
- Post Mortem Viewer
- Trend Chart
- C++ API for TINE Servers
- Brief comments on TINE Video Server and Release 4.0
- All serious problems understood and corrected
- Cameras with a DirectShow interface now automatically supported
- E.g. Fire-wire interface was a simple plug-and-play operation (no driver installation necessary)
- Java client API underway
- Topics for coming meetings:
- Windows CE Port
- Fec configuration tool + code generation
- November 30, 2007
- Release 4.0 Status and discussion
- New DLL naming scheme : Canonical Windows DLL name is tine32.dll which points either to tine.dll (single threaded) or tinemt.dll (multi-threaded) according to the site installation for windows. Currently : tine32.dll -> tinemt.dll (multi-threaded).
- Large Data Transfers and discussion
- Large data transfers at fast rates work fine, except : watch out for those ‘cheap’ switch ports!
- This Week in Labview (Occurences) and discussion
- The LabView IDE does NOT unload the tine libraries upon ‘stopping’. Calling lvTineSrvInit.Vi will effectively free all resources and re-initialize. In order to ‘Stop’ a client/server application within the IDE, a ‘STOP’ button must call the ‘new’ VI : lvTineSrvStop.Vi.
- Property-specific Occurences need to utilize the ‘reentrant execution’ flag.
- CDI Bus Plugs and discussion
- A CDI bus plug must export a bus handler routine in order to work with CDI. Schematic example shown. For Details, please see Honggong.
- Local History tricks for large data sets and discussion
- Using property scheduling to guarantee data storage at a specific archive rate
- Using the short-term history buffers as software transient recorders.
- November 16, 2007
- Release 4.0 Status and discussion
- Caching directory for addresses and manifest changed from ‘hosts’ to ‘cache’
- Caching directory on Windows machines in %SystemDrive%:\tine\cache
- Caching directory on Unix machines in /var/tmp/cache
- DNS entry ‘tineens’ added at desy.de for last fallback in finding the ENS address.
- Pushing the Envelope and discussion
- How to send/receive large data payloads at high rates
- How to tune Linux machines to accept more receive buffer space per socket.
- Bug in transferring large (byte-array) data payloads over TCP/IP.
- Understood and corrected.
- Discussion point: How to deal with ultra-large (10s of MB) transient recorder data at the post-mortem server level.
- Topics for coming meetings:
- How to write CDI bus plugs.
- Fec configuration tool.
- C++ API