Synchronization Interface

This Window is particular to the BLUE side, which acts as a master when the system is ran synchronized. For more information on this please read the general explanation



This window allows to synchronize or unsynchronize both sides, and to set what te user wants to be synchronized
The Systems table on the left shows what systems are available. For DBSP there are only two systems: DBSPBLUE and DBSPRED (for BLUE and RED sides respectively)

At the right side there are the actual controls for this GUI.

synchronize: If enabled, both systems are synchornized. If disabled, both system are unsynchronized, which means that both sides can be run as totally independent systems. When the systems are synchornized, the synchronized LED will turn green, and a check mark will appear in fron of the DBSPRED entry on the table.

The rest of the controls are enabled only if synchronize  is enabled. The fact that the systems are synchornized implies this aspects:

- Shutter open: shutter will be opened at the same time (BLUE GO button)
- Exposure will be Paused/Resumed/Aborted/Stoped on both sides (BLUE Pause/Resume, Abort  and STOP NOW buttons)
- Sequence will be stoped at both sides (BLUE STOP after current image button)
- object and observer will be the same on both sides (specified on the BLUE object and observer controls)

Besides these basic aspects, there are some other parameters than can be synchornized if desired. This is the usage of the rest of the controls on this GUI

add prefix to basename: If checked, it will add a prefix to the images of both sides (b_ for BLUE side, and r_ for RED side), so now the final image name will appear as  <prefix><basename><image_number>)
directory: If ON, both images will be written on the directory specified on the BLUE GUI (image path control)
basename: If ON, both images will have the same basename (BLUE basename control)
numbering: synchronized: The image number will be the same for both sides (BLUE image number control)
                      unsynchronized: numbering is kept independent for both systems
num of images: If ON, the number of images of the sequence will be the same for both,  set by the BLUE number of images control
exptime: If ON, the exposure time for both sides will be the same (BLUE exptime control)


IMPORTANT NOTES:
- if  directory, basename and numbering are all synchronized, the system will check automatically add prefix to basename in order to avoid the images to override each other. In this case the images will be written as:
BLUE image: <imageg path>/b_<basename><image_number>
RED image: <image path>/r_<basename><image_number>
- if directory and basename are synchronized, but numbering is unsynchronized, it is responsability of the user either to check adding the prefix, or to keep the numbering distant enough to avoid confusion.