working on correcting the ordering of the messages

scripts/st.cmd

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ require StreamGenerator, test
 epicsEnvSet("INSTR", "SQ:TEST:")
 epicsEnvSet("NAME", "SG")
 
-drvAsynIPPortConfigure("ASYN_IP_PORT", "127.0.0.1:9071:54321 UDP", 0, 0, 0)
-asynStreamGenerator("ASYN_SG", "ASYN_IP_PORT", 4, 1000, 8192)
+drvAsynIPPortConfigure("ASYN_IP_PORT", "127.0.0.1:9071:54321 UDP", 0, 0, 1)
+asynStreamGenerator("ASYN_SG", "ASYN_IP_PORT", 4, 10000, 1000, 8192)
 
 dbLoadRecords("$(StreamGenerator_DB)daq_common.db", "INSTR=$(INSTR), NAME=$(NAME), PORT=ASYN_SG, CHANNELS=5")
 

scripts/udp_gen.py

@@ -45,16 +45,15 @@ while True:
     header[16] = t_high & 0xff
     header[17] = t_high >> 8
 
-    # num_events = random.randint(0, 243)
-    num_events = 243
+    num_events = random.randint(0, 243)
+    # num_events = 243
+    # num_events = 1
 
     # update buffer length
     buffer_length = 21 + num_events * 3
     header[0] = buffer_length & 0xff
     header[1] = (buffer_length >> 8) & 0xff
 
-    tosend = list(header)
-
     # I believe, that in our case we never mix monitor and detector events as
     # the monitors should have id 0 and the detector events 1-9 so I have
     # excluded that posibility here. That would, however, if true mean we could
@@ -62,6 +61,10 @@ while True:
 
     is_monitor = random.randint(0, 9)
 
+    header[11] = 0 if is_monitor > 3 else random.randint(1,9)
+
+    tosend = list(header)
+
     if is_monitor > 3:
 
         for i in range(num_events):
@@ -103,4 +106,4 @@ while True:
     sock.sendto(bytes(tosend), ('127.0.0.1', 54321))
     mv = memoryview(bytes(header)).cast('H')
     print(f'Sent packet {mv[3]} with {num_events} events {base_timestamp}')
-    # time.sleep(0.0005)
+    # time.sleep(0.5)