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1. Program description:
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This is a program for monitoring the fieldpoint temperature sensor (National Instruments FP RTD-122) in the F9 photon detectors laboratory. As an output, it produces a formatted text output and an optional ROOT plot. Note that this program will only work on computers connected to the IJS network (IP = 178.172.43.*).
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2. Installation instructions:
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Make sure environmental variables for ROOT are set and that there is an installation of ROOT with MySQL support on the running computer (./configure --enable-mysql).
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Installation is done by using
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> make
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Run the program with
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> ./start.sh
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Clean the installation by using
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> make clean
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3. Program use:
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Program use is straight-forward: 
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- Fieldpoint channel selects the channel we wish to get temperature from.
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- Start and end time determine the data range to be retrieved from the MySQL database.
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- Draw to last time point selects the data range between start time and the most current point in the database.
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- Output data settings determine what kind of format should be used for timestamps in the text output (local time, UNIX timestamp).
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- Update button updates the plot, Export button exports the plot (saved in folder ./fieldpoint) and Close button closes the application.
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- At any change in start or end times and updating the plot, the text output (saved in folder ./fieldpoint) is also updated.
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4. Time difference - Important!
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Data saved in the MySQL database have a time shift to the current local time. To fix this time shift use the ./time_offset script (password needed to connect to f9lab04), followed by the installation instructions above (make). The timing of old datapoints can still be wrong!