I have generated a single sequence that I am trying to sort. I have never used the Star Channel Tools library before. I am getting an error that can be seen at the bottom of the Trace snippet below. I am assuming that it is one of my settings in the command that is causing the error or perhaps my channel variable which is set to “11111111”.
The sequence Trace is fine and the index is reset before running this.
025-10-06 15:07:24.612 USER : Trace - complete; CHAN_ACCESS_Sort1Sequence - START
2025-10-06 15:07:24.612 USER : Trace - complete;
2025-10-06 15:07:24.639 Microlab® STARlet : Firmware Command (Single Step) - start;
2025-10-06 15:07:24.651 Microlab® STARlet : Firmware Command (Single Step) - complete; > RU: er00/00ru01000 12250 01400 13375
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Hi @Madclem1 ,
If you can include an extra snippet of the trace or upload the file that would help deduce what you are seeing. The firmware commands that you have posted are not errors, as STAR Tools will query a few things the first time it is used. In this case, it is Querying the X arm’s min and max ranges so that the sequence knows the positions that cannot be reached by the channels in X.
This library is different from other sorting libraries as it does not sort the full sequence up front but rather gets the next N positions that are within the reach of the channels. So, the result from what you have shown should have had 8 sequence positions in ML_STAR.DestAll as it writes to that sequence. The outputs are typically local sequences instead of deck sequences as they get overwritten with each loop. The channel pattern is also an output and not an input parameter.
See below an example of using the function for a pipetting step:
The channel pattern is used to feed the tip pick up, aspiration, and dispense and the output sequence is used in the aspirate. The positions that were used (moved to the output sequence) are then removed from the input sequence, so looping over that sequence will work just fine as that sequence will continue to shrink until all positions are used.
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