Counter/Timer API reference¶

The counter/timer is one of the most used elements in sardana. A counter/timer represents an experimental channel which acquisition result is a scalar value.

A counter/timer has a state, and a value attributes. The state indicates at any time if the counter/timer is stopped, in alarm or moving. The value, indicates the current counter/timer value.

The available operations are:

start acquisition(integration time)

starts to acquire the counter/timer with the given integration time

start_acquisition()

stop

stops the counter/timer acquisition in an orderly fashion

abort

stops the counter/timer acquisition as fast as possible