Eiger Tango device¶
This is the reference documentation of the Dectris Eiger Tango device.
you can also find some useful information about the camera models/prerequisite/installation/configuration/compilation in the Dectris Eiger camera plugin section.
Properties¶
Property name |
Mandatory |
Default value |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
detector_ip_address |
Yes |
N/A |
The ip address or the hostname of the detector computer interface |
http_port |
No |
80 |
The http port number for control API |
stream_port |
No |
9999 |
The port number for the data stream API |
Attributes¶
Attribute name |
RW |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
auto_summation |
rw |
DevString |
If enable image depth is bpp32 and, if not image depth is bpp16 (*) |
cam_status |
ro |
DevString |
The internal camera status |
compression_type |
rw |
DevString |
|
countrate_correction |
rw |
DevString |
Enable or disable the countrate correction (*) |
efficency_correction |
rw |
DevString |
Enable the efficienty correction |
flatfield_correction |
rw |
DevString |
Enable or disable the internal (vs. lima) flatfield correction (*) |
humidity |
ro |
DevFloat |
Return the humidity percentage |
pixel_mask |
rw |
DevString |
Enable or disable the pixel mask correction (*) |
photon_energy |
rw |
DevFloat |
The photon energy,it should be set to the incoming beam energy. Actually it’s an helper which set the threshold |
plugin_status |
ro |
DevString |
The camera plugin status |
serie_id |
ro |
DevLong |
The current acquisition serie identifier |
stream_last_info |
ro |
DevString |
Information on data stream, encoding, frame_dim and packed_size |
stream_stats |
ro |
DevDouble |
ave_size, ave_time, ave_speed |
threshold_energy |
rw |
DevFloat |
The threshold energy, it will set the camera detection threshold. This should be set between 50 to 60 % of the incoming beam energy. |
temperature |
ro |
DevFloat |
The sensor temperature |
virtual_pixel_correction |
rw |
DevString |
Enable or disable the virtual-pixel correction (*) |
(*) These attributes can take as value ON or OFF. Please refer to the Dectris documention for more information regarding the online corrections.
Commands¶
Command name |
Arg. in |
Arg. out |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
deleteMemoryFiles |
DevVoid |
DevVoid |
To remove the temporary mem. files |
initialize |
DevVoid |
DevVoid |
To initialize the detector |
latchStreamStatistics |
DevBoolean |
|
If True, reset the statistics |
Init |
DevVoid |
DevVoid |
Do not use |
State |
DevVoid |
DevLong |
Return the device state |
Status |
DevVoid |
DevString |
Return the device state as a string |
getAttrStringValueList |
DevString: Attribute name |
DevVarStringArray: String value list |
Return the authorized string value list for a given attribute name |