DiamondLightSource / dodal

Ophyd devices and other utils that could be used across DLS beamlines
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Updates for eiger stream2 / no fan / single file writer #135

Open GDYendell opened 1 year ago

GDYendell commented 1 year ago

In updating to odin to work with stream2 some simplifications have been made.

I am hoping to use a single writer and no fan everywhere, but we need to verify that it is sufficient to handle the data rates. It may be easier to patch things enough to test a single writer and then if it works then decide to only support a single writer to simplify the code, rather than to update it to work in either case.

Changes I can see from reviewing the code:

And depending on if it needs to support both single writer and fan with 4 writers:

GDYendell commented 1 year ago

From testing data throughput issues on I04, we might not be able to get rid of the fan + 4 FPs...

stan-dot commented 1 month ago

from discussion - this is blocked until the lower level eiger work is done