.. _wfscam:

Wavefront Sensor Camera (BigJoe) Out-of-Box Tests
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.. automodule:: wfscam
    :members:

The following should take a couple images and then display one of them using ds9:

::

    import wfscam
    wfscam.checkcam()

**If this fails**, one can go back and check using the :ref:`engineering
display <engineering>`, which uses IDL and a set of bash scripts to call
vendor-provided example code compiled under linux.

**As a last resort**, you can check the camera and EDT frame
grabber on a windows machine using vendor-supplied executables.
You first need to move the EDT frame grabber card out of rtc and in to
the Windows PC named GPI-2. Run a DOS shell on the machine labled GPI-2
and type the commands::

    cd c:\EDT\pdv
    edt_sysinfo.exe
    dvinfo.exe
    pdvshow

The edt_sysinfo command creates a file called edt_sysinfo.out - a text file.
dvinfo takes some data (ignore the initial warning message) and puts raw data into a file taketest.raw
and text info into dvinfo.out.
pdvshow brings up a live image.