Environment Variables

Client Environment Variables

Variable

Default

Description

CAPROTO_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT

2.0

The default timeout to use for client connections and reading.

CAPROTO_STRING_ENCODING

“latin-1”

The default string encoding to use.

EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST

‘’

The client address list.

EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST

‘YES’

Whether or not to automatically determine the address list.

EPICS_CA_CONN_TMO

30.0

Connection timeout.

EPICS_CA_BEACON_PERIOD

15.0

Beacon broadcast period.

EPICS_CA_REPEATER_PORT

5065

Port for the repeater.

EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT

5064

Default port for the server.

EPICS_CA_MAX_ARRAY_BYTES

16384

Max bytes as a client. Caproto does not support this.

EPICS_CA_MAX_SEARCH_PERIOD

300

Maximum search period.

EPICS_TS_MIN_WEST

360

Caproto does not support this.

Server Environment Variables

Variable

Default

Description

EPICS_CAS_SERVER_PORT

5064

Default server port.

EPICS_CAS_AUTO_BEACON_ADDR_LIST

‘YES’

Automatically determine beacon address lists.

EPICS_CAS_BEACON_ADDR_LIST

‘’

Manual beacon address list.

EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PERIOD

15.0

Beacon broadcast period.

EPICS_CAS_BEACON_PORT

5065

Beacon UDP port.

EPICS_CAS_INTF_ADDR_LIST

‘’

Interfaces to listen on.

EPICS_CAS_IGNORE_ADDR_LIST

‘’

Interfaces to igonre.

IOC Helper Environment Variables

Variable

Default

Description

ENGINEER

“”

The engineer to report as owner of the IOC.

LOCATION

“”

The location to report in IOC stats.