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

Attributes

Attribute name

RW

Type

Description

auto_summation

rw

DevString

If enable image depth is bpp32 and, if not image depth is bpp16 (*)

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

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

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