This is a directory of various How-To documents written by members of the EPICS collaboration. Contributions to this page are most welcome!
Building Base and Modules on Different Architectures and Operating Systems
- The official AreaDetector installation guide
- Getting Started with EPICS on RTEMS
- Getting Started with R3.14.7 on a PC104 running Linux
- How To Port EPICS to a new OS/Architecture
- How To Use Posix Thread Priority Scheduling under Linux
- How To cross compile EPICS and a IOC to an old x86 Linux system
- Installing EPICS on a Raspberry Pi
- Installation on Windows
Applications
- Common Database patterns
- How To Install Channel Archiver On Scientific Linux
- What PV Save and Restore Tools are available
- How to Add a New Breakpoint Table
- “Best Practice” Guidelines
- How do I get EPICS applications to work with a Mac OS X firewall?
Collaboration Stuff
Writing Drivers and Device Support
- How To Do Serial (using Asyn Driver and StreamDevice) (also covers VXI-11)
- How To Do Serial (using Asyn Driver and devGPIB)
- How to make your EPICS driver operating system independent
- How To Write Device Support that uses Asyn Driver (Incomplete!)
- How to use GPIB ports with linux-gpib and StreamDevice
- How to avoid copying arrays with waveformRecord
Infrastructure and Other Stuff
- How To Set Up a Linux Box as an IOC Boot Server
- How to Set Up a Soft IOC Framework on Linux
- How to Configure Channel Access
- How to Make Channel Access Reach Multiple Soft IOCs on a Linux Host
- How to Set Up Console Access and Logging for VME and Soft IOCs
- How to Set Up NAL (Nagios Alarm Handler) to monitor an EPICS network
- How to find which IOC provides a PV