Frontend Settings Limit Checking

[wvonseeg]

Hi Florian,

Is there a way that we could have mvme limit check settings for supported Mesytec boards in the Frontend Settings file when you go to start the DAQ.

I have some users who have been getting themselves tripped up when they enter something like

# Gain
0x611A 20

in the Frontend Settings file on an MDPP-16 running SCP firmware, expecting to get a gain of 20, when to my understanding they should be entering

# Gain
0x611A $(20.0 * 100)

to get a gain of 20. I would guess this would then set their gain to 1 since that seems to be the minimum and corresponds to a value of 100 in the register. Or would it set it to whatever the default value is? Either way it would be ideal to have something like this fail louder.

Sincerely,
Will

[flueke]

Dear Will,

thank you for the suggestion. I'll see if I can add something to check for register limits.
I also wanted to display register names during the init phase to make reading the logs easier.

Best
Florian