A 'generic' generic IOC that provides a quick to launch IOC devcontainer. e.g. for developing new support modules.
This repository was generated by ioc-template
To update to the latest version of the template:
# activate a python virtual environment
module load uv
cd ioc-generic
uvx copier update -A --trust .This repository includes a developer container configuration for Visual Studio Code. This allows you to run the Generic IOC locally and debug it. See https://epics-containers.github.io/main/tutorials/dev_container.html.
The vscode developer container auto forwards the channel access ports on the loopback interface. If you have channel access clients running on the host machine, you can connect to the IOC by setting the EPICS_CA_NAME_SERVERS environment variable as follows:
export EPICS_CA_NAME_SERVERS=127.0.0.1:5064
caget IOCNAME:PVNAME