ADEiger

An EPICS areaDetector driver for the Eiger pixel array detectors from Dectris.

Additional information:

• Release notes.

Notes:

• 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.
  • ADSupport R1-3 now provides hdf5_hl

Before compiling:

• Set ZMQ variables inside ADEiger/configure/CONFIG_SITE to point to a ZeroMQ installation location if a system package is not installed (libzmq3-dev on Debian systems).
  • ZeroMQ 4 is required

HDF5 Plugins:

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.

How to run:

• Under ADEiger/iocs/eigerIOC/iocBoot/iocEiger/ there is already a ready to use IOC:
  • Change the IP address in st.cmd.
  • Run ./st.cmd.
• There is a CS-Studio screen under areaDetector/ADEiger/eigerApp/op/opi, just use it with Controls System Studio.