Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: pyinstruments
Version: 0.3.07
Summary: Control of data acquisition with remote instruments using 
    IVI-C or IVI-COM, Visa, and serial protocols.
Home-page: https://github.com/SamuelDeleglise/pyinstruments
Author: Samuel Deleglise
Author-email: samuel.deleglise@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: 
        =============================================
        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, date, comment, name...) together with a list of user-defined tags to quickly identify the curves. 
        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)
        
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        
        The windows installer takes care of all the dependancies that are not standards in version 2.7.3.1 of pythonxy.
        
        The other option to install pyinstruments is to use pip from a command shell (also available in pythonxy)::
        
        		pip install pyinstruments
        
        pyinstruments and its three 'exotic' dependencies can also be uninstalled using pip::
        
        		pip uninstall pyinstruments
        		pip uninstall pyhardware
        		pip uninstall pyivi
        
        
        
        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
