Note

Ophyd async is included on a provisional basis until the v1.0 release and may change API on minor release numbers before then

ophyd_async.panda.DataBlock

class ophyd_async.panda.DataBlock(name: str = '')

Bases: Device

Methods

children
connect	Connect self and all child Devices.
set_name	Set self.name=name and each self.child.name=name+"-child".

Attributes

log
name	Return the name of the Device
parent	The parent Device if it exists
hdf_directory
hdf_file_name
num_capture
num_captured
capture
flush_period
datasets

hdf_directory: SignalRW[str]

hdf_file_name: SignalRW[str]

num_capture: SignalRW[int]

num_captured: SignalR[int]

capture: SignalRW[bool]

flush_period: SignalRW[float]

datasets: SignalR[DatasetTable]

children() → Iterator[Tuple[str, Device]]

async connect(mock: bool = False, timeout: float = 10.0, force_reconnect: bool = False)

Connect self and all child Devices.

Contains a timeout that gets propagated to child.connect methods.

Parameters:

• mock – If True then use MockSignalBackend for all Signals

• timeout – Time to wait before failing with a TimeoutError.

property log

property name: str

Return the name of the Device

parent: 'Device' | None = None

The parent Device if it exists

set_name(name: str)

Set self.name=name and each self.child.name=name+"-child".

Parameters:

name – New name to set