LumaViewPro is an open source fluorescence microscope control interface written in Python. It is sponsored by Etaluma, Inc. and includes an example of an interface to the Etaluma LED control board with Multi-axis motion control. It offers multi OS functional GUI as well as a development tool for testing and building applications from.
Download and install from the python page https://www.python.org/downloads/.
- select "add python to PATH"
- select "install launcher for all users"
- select "install now"
- restart the computer
Download and unzip the LumaViewPro-master file
Select to open all Python documents using the Python application
Open a comand Prompt and enter the following
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools virtualenv
python -m pip install numpy
python -m pip install pyserial
python -m pip install opencv-python
python -m pip install pypylon
python -m pip install kivy
python -m pip install plyer
python -m pip install scipy
python -m pip install pandas imutils color_transfer scikit-image
Go to the location of the LumaViewPro-master folder in the command prompt
Open LumaViewPro using the command prompt
Download and unzip the LumaViewPro-master file
To install Python open the terminal and enter the following
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.10
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
To check if Python works enter the following in the terminal
python3 --version
Enter the following into the terminal to install the package dependencies
pip3 install numpy plyer kivy kivymd opencv-python scipy pyserial pypylon mcp2210-python pandas pywinusb
Go to the location of the LumaViewPro-master folder in the terminal
Open LumaViewPro using the terminal
- Download code from github as a .ZIP file
- Unzip to your preferred folder
- Open command prompt
- Navigate to the folder containing lumaviewpro.py
- type: python lumaviewpro.py