From 52b199d289bd246d559f52a8153c4915d1e6a94b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@bnl.gov>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 14:39:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: force EnumSignal to claim to be a string

closes #1083
---
 ophyd/sim.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ophyd/sim.py b/ophyd/sim.py
index a990cc3f6..28244621e 100644
--- a/ophyd/sim.py
+++ b/ophyd/sim.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def get(self, *, as_string=True, **kwargs):
     def describe(self):
         desc = super().describe()
         desc[self.name]["enum_strs"] = self._enum_strs
-
+        desc[self.name]['dtype'] = 'string'
         return desc