2025-08-07.md

areaDetector Collaboration Meeting (2025-08-07)

Attendance

• Érico Nogueira
• Mark S. Engbretson
• Jakub Wlodek
• Henrique Simões
• Gustavo Reis
• Freddie Akeroyd
• Tejas Guruswamy
• Mark Rivers
• QunZhang
• Josh EC

Previous meeting action points

• Jakub: ADAndor3 CoaXpress camera, issues with BitFlow driver (didn't build on RHEL, didn't support DKMS, instructions from Andor were complex and required manual work). Does it work with Euresys? Might require vendor specific code, like Hamamatsu (doesn't implement GenICam completely, only 3 parameters - they want you to use their own library, since they have other interfaces, such as CameraLink, which won't support GenICam), otherwise it should work.

• Jakub will ask Stuart Wilkins about maintenance of specsAnalyzer and see if it's still in use

Issues

• ADCore:
  • PRs:
    • Convert NDPluginPva to use PVXS - add pvxsIoc to commonDriverMakefile, remove from commonLibraryMakefile
• ADEuresys:
  • Issues:
    • Add multi camera support - Jakub: certain cards can drive multiple cameras, unclear if in the same or different processes
  • PRs:
    • Update EGrabber SDK Version - Add supported SDK version to Release Notes/docs
• ADGenICam:
  • PRs:
    • Add Dhyana6060BSI support - Mark generated the files separately
• ADPICam:
  • Issues:
    • Lock directory initialization
• ADUVC:
  • Issues:
    • Add Phoebus display screen - missing autogeneration
    • Add support for Auto-Exposure mode
    • Improve handling of multiple identical cameras. - (identical even in serial numbers) different logic has already been implemented
  • PRs:
    • New version of libuvc library - will have an additional test
• ADViewers:
  • PRs:
    • Update 3D plot axis creation in NumpyImage class
• Stale Items:
  • Stale Issues:
    • Find a way to stop misbehaving plugins from slowing down driver
    • New OPI to show pixel data in CSS intensity graph
    • documentation - Jakub is setting one up, can look at docs
    • Add remaining time PV - still relevant, if anyone wants to tackle it
    • TIME datatypes won't compile on vxWorks - Mark will close it
    • Cannot define H5_HAVE_THREADSAFE on mingw
    • NDPosPlugin.dbd Not Found During Build
  • Stale PRs:
    • Removing doCallbacksGeneric pointer, adding maxThreads support - will be made into draft
    • Create AWS S3 Interface for TIFF Files - they are still interested in this; might be moved to use Azure C++ SDK; cloud-native formats. Detectors write data to the cloud directly, process data in cloud with low latency
    • Image j macros
    • Build module with MingW (and other compilers) with Ubuntu host on our GitLab server.
    • In the pvaDriverConfig function, make it possible to use a non-defaul…
    • Switch from pvDatabase to SharedPV
    • Simplify build configuration - bump PR

Other subjects

• Freddie: Some updates on areaDetector/ADCore#536
• Mark: ADPilatus running on CentOS 6.10, newer than the OpenSUSE it came with
• Mark: Camera on Windows, ImageJ PVA plugin on same machine, gets really slow (1 FPS). No issue with CA or different machines
• Jakub: Request to test areaDetector/ADSupport#46 ; issues noticed with GCC 14.1