Hey, We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem to be a bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, but if there is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be happy to use that :). Regards, Sebastian
Hi Sebastian, On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net>wrote:
Hey,
We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem to be a bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, but if there is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be happy to use that :).
Regards,
Is DAQ data acquisition? If so, what sort of data? Chuck
On Sa, 2014-04-26 at 09:04 -0400, John Hassler wrote:
On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
Hi Sebastian,
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote: Hey,
We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem to be a bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, but if there is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be happy to use that :).
Regards,
Is DAQ data acquisition? If so, what sort of data?
Chuck
Which DAQ are you using? There is 'comedi' for internal boards, but I don't know of anything except the "ctype wrappers" for usb boxes. When I started doing this several years ago, I wrote my own ctype wrappers to access the dll for the Measurement Computing USB-1208 and for the NI-USB6008. Mine were very simple, and did only what I needed. There's a number of them on the web now, but I haven't looked an any of them in detail.
Sorry, thought the DAQ was more clear then it probably is. What we have is a National instruments USB DAQ unit (M-Series). We are actually using it more for analog output then input right now.
Andrew Straw wrote a very nice object-oriented driver for the Measurement Computing USB devices in Python. However, I found references to it in Cookbook/Data Acquisition, but I couldn't find the actual PyUniversalLibrary. Maybe it's no longer active.
I will have a look if I find it, that sounds interesting, I also was hoping that a wrapper could maybe help with multiprocessing magic to separate the gui as much as possible from the signal generation. Though maybe that is too high level to really do in any case. I have started playing with one of the ctypes wrappers and it indeed works very well. Rather annoying, because I initially wrote labview and now have to realize that the C-Api is identical and can easily be called from python, too :)... - Sebastian
"Ctype wrappers" have worked very well for me. We have one experiment using two USB-1208 and one NI-USB-6008 simultaneously in a single Python program with a Tkinter GUI, and it works fine.
john
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I've used Andrew's wrapper, and it worked well. But in the end I wrote my own routines using ctypes (stealing some ideas from Andrew). I can't remember exactly why I wrote my own... it was several years ago. But I do remember that it was really very easy to implement calls using ctypes. ~-~-~ On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net
wrote:
On Sa, 2014-04-26 at 09:04 -0400, John Hassler wrote:
On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
Hi Sebastian,
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote: Hey,
We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem to be a bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, but if there is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be happy to use that :).
Regards,
Is DAQ data acquisition? If so, what sort of data?
Chuck
Which DAQ are you using? There is 'comedi' for internal boards, but I don't know of anything except the "ctype wrappers" for usb boxes. When I started doing this several years ago, I wrote my own ctype wrappers to access the dll for the Measurement Computing USB-1208 and for the NI-USB6008. Mine were very simple, and did only what I needed. There's a number of them on the web now, but I haven't looked an any of them in detail.
Sorry, thought the DAQ was more clear then it probably is. What we have is a National instruments USB DAQ unit (M-Series). We are actually using it more for analog output then input right now.
Andrew Straw wrote a very nice object-oriented driver for the Measurement Computing USB devices in Python. However, I found references to it in Cookbook/Data Acquisition, but I couldn't find the actual PyUniversalLibrary. Maybe it's no longer active.
I will have a look if I find it, that sounds interesting, I also was hoping that a wrapper could maybe help with multiprocessing magic to separate the gui as much as possible from the signal generation. Though maybe that is too high level to really do in any case. I have started playing with one of the ctypes wrappers and it indeed works very well. Rather annoying, because I initially wrote labview and now have to realize that the C-Api is identical and can easily be called from python, too :)...
- Sebastian
"Ctype wrappers" have worked very well for me. We have one experiment using two USB-1208 and one NI-USB-6008 simultaneously in a single Python program with a Tkinter GUI, and it works fine.
john
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Andrew Straw's PyUniversalLibrary appears to be on PyPi<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyUniversalLibrary/> ~-~-~ On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gary Pajer <gary.pajer@gmail.com> wrote:
I've used Andrew's wrapper, and it worked well.
But in the end I wrote my own routines using ctypes (stealing some ideas from Andrew). I can't remember exactly why I wrote my own... it was several years ago. But I do remember that it was really very easy to implement calls using ctypes.
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Berg < sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
On Sa, 2014-04-26 at 09:04 -0400, John Hassler wrote:
On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
Hi Sebastian,
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote: Hey,
We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem to be a bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, but if there is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be happy to use that :).
Regards,
Is DAQ data acquisition? If so, what sort of data?
Chuck
Which DAQ are you using? There is 'comedi' for internal boards, but I don't know of anything except the "ctype wrappers" for usb boxes. When I started doing this several years ago, I wrote my own ctype wrappers to access the dll for the Measurement Computing USB-1208 and for the NI-USB6008. Mine were very simple, and did only what I needed. There's a number of them on the web now, but I haven't looked an any of them in detail.
Sorry, thought the DAQ was more clear then it probably is. What we have is a National instruments USB DAQ unit (M-Series). We are actually using it more for analog output then input right now.
Andrew Straw wrote a very nice object-oriented driver for the Measurement Computing USB devices in Python. However, I found references to it in Cookbook/Data Acquisition, but I couldn't find the actual PyUniversalLibrary. Maybe it's no longer active.
I will have a look if I find it, that sounds interesting, I also was hoping that a wrapper could maybe help with multiprocessing magic to separate the gui as much as possible from the signal generation. Though maybe that is too high level to really do in any case. I have started playing with one of the ctypes wrappers and it indeed works very well. Rather annoying, because I initially wrote labview and now have to realize that the C-Api is identical and can easily be called from python, too :)...
- Sebastian
"Ctype wrappers" have worked very well for me. We have one experiment using two USB-1208 and one NI-USB-6008 simultaneously in a single Python program with a Tkinter GUI, and it works fine.
john
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Gary Pajer <gary.pajer@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew Straw's PyUniversalLibrary appears to be on PyPi<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyUniversalLibrary/>
google search points here https://code.astraw.com/PyUniversalLibrary/ http://code.astraw.com/PyUniversalLibrary-downloads/ Josef
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gary Pajer <gary.pajer@gmail.com> wrote:
I've used Andrew's wrapper, and it worked well.
But in the end I wrote my own routines using ctypes (stealing some ideas from Andrew). I can't remember exactly why I wrote my own... it was several years ago. But I do remember that it was really very easy to implement calls using ctypes.
~-~-~
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Berg < sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
On Sa, 2014-04-26 at 09:04 -0400, John Hassler wrote:
On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
Hi Sebastian,
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote: Hey,
We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem to be a bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, but if there is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be happy to use that :).
Regards,
Is DAQ data acquisition? If so, what sort of data?
Chuck
Which DAQ are you using? There is 'comedi' for internal boards, but I don't know of anything except the "ctype wrappers" for usb boxes. When I started doing this several years ago, I wrote my own ctype wrappers to access the dll for the Measurement Computing USB-1208 and for the NI-USB6008. Mine were very simple, and did only what I needed. There's a number of them on the web now, but I haven't looked an any of them in detail.
Sorry, thought the DAQ was more clear then it probably is. What we have is a National instruments USB DAQ unit (M-Series). We are actually using it more for analog output then input right now.
Andrew Straw wrote a very nice object-oriented driver for the Measurement Computing USB devices in Python. However, I found references to it in Cookbook/Data Acquisition, but I couldn't find the actual PyUniversalLibrary. Maybe it's no longer active.
I will have a look if I find it, that sounds interesting, I also was hoping that a wrapper could maybe help with multiprocessing magic to separate the gui as much as possible from the signal generation. Though maybe that is too high level to really do in any case. I have started playing with one of the ctypes wrappers and it indeed works very well. Rather annoying, because I initially wrote labview and now have to realize that the C-Api is identical and can easily be called from python, too :)...
- Sebastian
"Ctype wrappers" have worked very well for me. We have one experiment using two USB-1208 and one NI-USB-6008 simultaneously in a single Python program with a Tkinter GUI, and it works fine.
john
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Hi, I have wrote a project for acquisition in ptyhon. It is alpha level. And so, not released yet. But we use it everyday in my lab. It is a simple layer on top of pycomedi (linux) or universal librabry via ctypes (on windows) and some other device. It use zmq for dispatching buffer. It also offer an osilloscope and timefrequency viewer in Qt. Have a look if you want https://github.com/samuelgarcia/pyacq Best Samuel Le 28/04/2014 21:47, josef.pktd@gmail.com a écrit :
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Gary Pajer <gary.pajer@gmail.com <mailto:gary.pajer@gmail.com>> wrote:
Andrew Straw's PyUniversalLibrary appears to be on PyPi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyUniversalLibrary/>
google search points here https://code.astraw.com/PyUniversalLibrary/ http://code.astraw.com/PyUniversalLibrary-downloads/
Josef
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gary Pajer <gary.pajer@gmail.com <mailto:gary.pajer@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've used Andrew's wrapper, and it worked well.
But in the end I wrote my own routines using ctypes (stealing some ideas from Andrew). I can't remember exactly why I wrote my own... it was several years ago. But I do remember that it was really very easy to implement calls using ctypes.
~-~-~
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net <mailto:sebastian@sipsolutions.net>> wrote:
On Sa, 2014-04-26 at 09:04 -0400, John Hassler wrote: > > On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Berg > > <sebastian@sipsolutions.net <mailto:sebastian@sipsolutions.net>> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > We are thinking about writing some DAQ programs in python, > > and I was > > wondering if anyone can recommend a lib for that. There seem > > to be a > > bunch of wrappers using ctypes, which seem all good enough, > > but if there > > is something more highlevel or very well done, I would be > > happy to use > > that :). > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Is DAQ data acquisition? If so, what sort of data? > > > > > > Chuck > > > > > Which DAQ are you using? There is 'comedi' for internal boards, but I > don't know of anything except the "ctype wrappers" for usb boxes. > When I started doing this several years ago, I wrote my own ctype > wrappers to access the dll for the Measurement Computing USB-1208 and > for the NI-USB6008. Mine were very simple, and did only what I > needed. There's a number of them on the web now, but I haven't looked > an any of them in detail. >
Sorry, thought the DAQ was more clear then it probably is. What we have is a National instruments USB DAQ unit (M-Series). We are actually using it more for analog output then input right now.
> Andrew Straw wrote a very nice object-oriented driver for the > Measurement Computing USB devices in Python. However, I found > references to it in Cookbook/Data Acquisition, but I couldn't find the > actual PyUniversalLibrary. Maybe it's no longer active. >
I will have a look if I find it, that sounds interesting, I also was hoping that a wrapper could maybe help with multiprocessing magic to separate the gui as much as possible from the signal generation. Though maybe that is too high level to really do in any case. I have started playing with one of the ctypes wrappers and it indeed works very well. Rather annoying, because I initially wrote labview and now have to realize that the C-Api is identical and can easily be called from python, too :)...
- Sebastian
> > "Ctype wrappers" have worked very well for me. We have one experiment > using two USB-1208 and one NI-USB-6008 simultaneously in a single > Python program with a Tkinter GUI, and it works fine. > > john > > > _______________________________________________ > SciPy-User mailing list > SciPy-User@scipy.org <mailto:SciPy-User@scipy.org> > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-user
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