Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: pyinstruments
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Control of data acquisition with remote instruments using 
    (IVI-)dotnet, (IVI-)COM, Visa, and serial protocols.
    python dotnet and/or comtypes should be installed
Home-page: https://github.com/SamuelDeleglise/pyinstruments
Author: Samuel Deleglise
Author-email: samuel.deleglise@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: 
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        pyinstruments: data acquisition toolkit
        =============================================
        
        *program less and do more science... better*
        
        
        What is it
        ==========
        
        **pyinstruments** is a Python package to control/get data from measurement and
        automation devices. Control of the remote instruments can be done via one of 
        the following protocols:
          
          - ivi drivers (using the lower level package pyivi)
          - visa
          - serial
        
        Using IVI-drivers greatly simplifies your life because :
        
          1/. The lower level layer is fully transparent for the user (pyivi provides a common interface for each instrument type).
          
          2/. **zero** extra work is needed to interface an instrument for which an IVI driver is provided.
        
        pyinstruments is composed of two **independant** packages (can be run on 2 remote computers!).
        
          - **pyhardwaredb** for the hardware communication (This package itself is a thin wrapper around pyhardware)
        because it heavily relies on ivi-drivers and com-interoperability, this package is intended to run on a windows machine.
          - **curvefinder** to display in quasi real-time the curves acquired (This module could be run on any platform).
        
        The strict separation between plotting and data-acquistion processes ensures that scripted data-acquisitions won't be affected by user interactions or plotting dead-times.
        
        
        Main Features
        =============
        
        The curves are stored in a (django-abstracted) database with all necessary metadata 
        (bandwidth, averaging...) together with a list of user-defined tags and comments. 
        The curvefinder module allows monitoring new incoming curves, as well as querying
        the database for old curve by date, tags...
        
        The hardware module has a Graphical User Interface to quickly get a curve from an instrument and configure the way instruments are interfaced.
        
        Dependencies
        ============
        
        Direct dependancies for pyinstruments are:
          - django > 1.5
          - PyQt4
          - guidata
          - guiqwt
          - pyhardware <-- pyivi <-- (ctypes + comtypes)
        
        The windows installer takes care of installing all the dependencies.
        
        
        Try it out!
        ===========
        
        The installation is single click (since v 0.1.15), desktop icons are created 
        to launch both graphical user interfaces.
        
        The project is hosted on GitHub, and still in a starting phase, contributions and feedback
        are warmly welcome!
        
        <https://github.com/SamuelDeleglise/pyinstruments>
Keywords: instruments data-acquisition IVI interface
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Human Machine Interfaces
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
