For the benefit of iic, the command is ramp finish [<exptime>] [<obstime>] [@stopRamp] We are merging the ramp stop command with a new ramp finalization command to avoid mistakes. Basically, whether or not the ramp is to be stopped the hxActor needs to be told what the real exposure times are.

The time card backpatching is blocked by a one line bug in the underlying fitsio module. A pull request has been submitted, but I suspect Erin will not cut a new version immediately. Not sure how best to handle this for us. We could install a new version in our conda trees?

I guess we have to.

A simple python setup.py install did not quite do it. The new version installed, but did not get linked in as the canonical fitsio module. So built a conda package to get around that, which I think will be OK. I do need to test a bit, since installing from .pkg files implies -no-deps, and the .pkg had to be built in a nonrubin-ics conda env.

LSST doubtless has the right mechanism to do this, but likely require a boatload of custom machinery.

the spsActor part of it bas been implemented and tested with the hx simulator.
Note that those new commands hasn't actually been added to the simulator, but I can check that commands are issued and their timing.
This now needs to be tested on real hardware.

Requires:

hxhal                 3.1.0
ics_hxActor       2.7.1
ics_utils             1.7.0