= Extras =

'''[wiki:GraspSw STARGRASP Software Extras]'''

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Many non-essential but potentially helpful C programs are distributed in the software tarball.  These unsupported "extras" can be installed by running:
{{{
make extras
}}}
after installing the core libraries and utilities necessary to run a detector.  These tool are supplied in the hope that they may prove to be useful in some way.  Suggestions, requests, and patches are welcome but the tools are provided as-is.

Many of the system level tools used with STARGRASP on the Pan-STARRS 1 Giga Pixel Camera 1 are those developed at the [http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope].  Typically, each facility will want to use the [wiki:GraspSwToolkit STARGRASP Toolkit] programs to interface to existing software.  In many cases, it is convenient to set up some of the following in order to have a more complete system.

 * [wiki:GraspExtrasOperationsStatserv Status Server]
 * [wiki:GraspExtrasOperationsLogging Log System]
 * [wiki:GraspExtrasSoftwareFitspipe Fitspipe Video Server]

Command line tools, many with specialized support for specific detector types such as OTAs:

 * [wiki:GraspExtrasSoftwareNoisetone noisetone] - C program. Repeatedly reads out a small area of a device and depicts calculated noise data as audible tones. Useful for providing immediate feedback on changes made to system grounding, etc. without having to refer to a numeric readout on a screen.
 {{{
# noisetone 10.10.10.155
}}}
 * [wiki:GraspExtrasSoftwareOtatool otatool] - C program. Multi-use tool to operate on a MEF FITS file and generate various different outputs, including per-extension statistics, colour-stretched JPEGs of the image data, etc.
 {{{
# otatool jmosaic=t test.fits
}}}