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	For data stream, supported compression are: NONE LZ4 BSLZ4
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	DevVarDoubleArray: ave_size, ave_time, ave_speed	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