Tracker Install Documentation¶

Hopefully this page will serve as a tree, which details can be hung off.. I will try to keep this filled in with documentations..

Computing (DAQ, Configuration, Calibration)¶

Controls: miceiocpctk¶

• This computer runs the trackerioc, and has a fraction of "james legacy code". The configuration code is located in the mice epics repositories. At present there is only the epicsDev version present:
  

  /home/epics/epicsDev/

• The central "deposit" for tracker information, code fragments, analysis scripts, configurations, etc.. is:
  

  /home/epics/tracker

  This information is backed up to the MLCR backup system (see: [[online:MICENETBackups]]) and is shared with other tracker applications via nfs. If re-making the machine, restore this folder, and export, by adding the following to /etc/exports:
  

  /export *.micenet.rl.ac.uk(fsid=0)
  /export/tracker miceacq16.micenet.rl.ac.uk(rw) miceacq17.micenet.rl.ac.uk(rw)
  

  Also, set:

   mount --bind /export/tracker /home/epics/tracker 

  Add the equivalent line to fstab.

Then enabled with:

/etc/init.d/nfs start
chkconfig nfs on 

TrackerIOC:¶

Legacy code (soon to be deprecated). These programs can be found in:¶

/home/epics/epicsDev/Software/bin/

To configure stuff:

1. Launch the "AFEIItServerInterfaceUI", Load configuration file, Hit Initialise, then Play button.
2. Launch the "AFEIItConfigurationUI", Load configuration file, Hit Initialise, then Configure All (this takes 10mins - things look like they crashed, they did not, have faith).

TrDAQ: miceacq16, miceacq17¶

• The tracker "deposit" should be mounted in /home/daq/tracker.
• Scripts to run TrDAQ can be found in the scripts folder. Try to use these scripts, they put the data somewhere sane, with a sane name!

Calibration¶

The code for calibration should live in the "deposit", in mice-tracker-calibrations.

Installation:¶

For the tracker calibration code, you need the following:

• MySQL database.
• MySQL interface from python:

  • cd /home/daq/Software/ExtApps
    wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/MySQL-python/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
    unzip MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
    cd MySQL-python-1.2.5
    python setup.py build
    python setup.py install (AS ROOT).