Support for 8401-HR devices and more

[ThresaKelly]

Description

Version v1.1.0 of the Python POD API has been released! The Python POD API is an open-source application programming interface (API) for data acquisition POD devices.

In this update, we now support 8401-HR POD devices. You can customize the hardware and stream data from 8206-HR or 8401-HR devices using the Setup_PodDevices module. We also added a new option in Setup_PodDevices to remove any connected POD devices. Additionally, we have improved the accuracy of the timestamps to have nanosecond resolution when streaming from a POD device. We have also added additional support for giving TTL commands. In this update, we have made various improvements to the codebase to standardize the POD device setup.

You can use the Python POD API core modules to design a personalized data acquisition program. Examples and documentation can be found here on GitHub. The Python POD API is available for free under the New BSD License.

Update Summary

1. Support for 8401-HR POD devices, which includes…

   • The POD_8401HR module supports reading from and writing to physical 8401-HR devices.
   • The Setup_8401HR module allows the user to set up 8401-HR devices. The user can control aspects of its hardware and stream data.

2. Improved the accuracy of timestamps when streaming POD device data. Timestamps have nanosecond resolution when saved to a text file.

3. Included functions to read and write TTL commands to the 8206-HR and 8401-HR

4. Added an option in Setup_PodDevices to remove a connected POD device.

5. Provided additional user input validations to ensure the Setup_PodDevices constructor arguments are correctly formatted, which prevents errors from unexpected inputs.

6. Various improvements to the codebase, which include...

   • Abstracting the device setup into more classes (Setup_PodDevices, Setup_Interface, Setup_8401HR, Setup_8206HR).
   • Standardizing requests for user input by using the UserInput module.
   • Adding more annotations and descriptions to the class methods.

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