An EPICS areaDetector driver for the Eiger pixel array detectors from Dectris.
Additional information:
- Depends on the Eiger having the firmware 1.6.4 or newer.
- Depends on ADCore R2-6 or newer.
- Currently this was only tested on Linux 64-bit machines.
- ADEiger is currently incompatible with ADSupport's hdf5 because ADEiger depends on hdf5_hl.
- Clone and compile areaDetector according to its instructions.
- Clone this repository.
- Edit
AREADETECTORvariable insideADEiger/configure/RELEASEto point to the correct location. - Set
ZMQvariables insideADEiger/configure/CONFIG_SITEto point to a ZeroMQ installation location if a system package is not installed (libzmq3-devon Debian systems).- ZeroMQ 4 is required
- Run
makeinsideADEiger.
If you want ADEiger to decode compressed data produced by the detector, you will have to have a couple of decompression plugins compiled and on the path:
- Bitshuffle:
Available here.
- LZ4:
Deprecated version available here. New version available here.
Once they are compiled, add their paths to the environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH, separated by a colon.
- Under
ADEiger/iocs/eigerIOC/iocBoot/iocEiger/there is already a ready to use IOC:- If there is no
envPaths, runmake envPathsthere. - Change the IP address in
st.cmd. - Run
./st.cmd.
- If there is no
- There is a CS-Studio screen under
areaDetector/ADEiger/eigerApp/op/opi, just use it with Controls System Studio.