Pulse Pal for Python 3

Unofficial port of Pulse Pal for Python 3

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://pulse-pal.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Python 3 compatibility
• Easy install through pip
• Command-line interface
• Limited support

Installation

pip install pulse_pal

Usage

Through python

from pulse_pal import PulsePal
myPulsePal = PulsePal()  # Create a new instance of a PulsePal object
myPulsePal.connect(serialPortName='COM10')  # Connect to PulsePal on port COM# (

Through console

See help:

pulse_pal --help

Set phase 1 voltage to 5:

pulse_pal --do set --port COM2 --param_name phase1Voltage --param_value 5

Trigger channel 1:

pulse_pal --do trigger --channel 1

Test your Pulse Pal connection

• Easy (from console):

pulse_pal --do test

• Low-level (from python):

def test_pulse_pal(serialPortName='COM10'):
    import serial,struct

    OpMenuByte = 213
    serialObject = serial.Serial(serialPortName, 115200, timeout=1)
    handshakeByteString = struct.pack('BB', OpMenuByte, 72)
    serialObject.write(handshakeByteString)
    Response=serialObject.read(5)
    print(len(Response))

test_pulse_pal('COM10')

See more examples in scripts.py