The areaDetector file plugin refuses to be staged until one NDArray has
passed through it, so every restart of the SITORO IOC leaves the Falcon
raising ophyd's UnprimedPlugin at the start of a scan. The generic
HDF5Plugin.warmup() cannot be used, as it drives parent.cam, which the
Falcon does not have.
prime() pushes a single spectrum through the plugin using user-advanced
pixels, so no external gate signal is required and a disconnected trigger
cable cannot mask the priming. No file is written.
The trigger configuration is captured beforehand and restored in a finally
block. on_stage never resets pixel_advance_mode, ignore_gate or
pixels_per_buffer -- only on_connected does -- so a prime that bailed out
halfway would otherwise leave the detector deaf to the gate and silently
starve every subsequent scan.
prime() and is_primed() are exposed via USER_ACCESS, so they are callable
from the BEC client as dev.falcon.prime().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KLnmUurqcNd1FiDY5M2uZr
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