dvg-devices 1.3.0

Collection of I/O interfaces to communicate with microcontroller boards and laboratory devices, with optional PyQt/PySide multithread support and graphical user-interfaces.

DvG_Devices

Collection of I/O interfaces to communicate with microcontroller boards and laboratory devices, with optional PyQt/PySide multithread support and graphical user-interfaces.

Supports PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2 and PySide6.

• Documentation: https://python-dvg-devices.readthedocs.io

• Github: https://github.com/Dennis-van-Gils/python-dvg-devices

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/dvg-devices

Installation:

pip install dvg-devices

Installation with an optional Qt-library:

pip install dvg-devices[pyqt5/pyqt6/pyside2/pyside6]

Supported devices

Arduino, or similar	microcontroller board
Aim TTi QL series II	power supply
Bronkhorst EL-FLOW	mass flow controller
Julabo circulator	recirculating bath
Keysight 3497xA	digital multimeter
Keysight N8700	power supply
Parker Compax3	servo controller
Picotech PT104	temperature logger
PolyScience PD	recirculating bath
ThermoFisher ThermoFlex	chiller

Highlights

• Class SerialDevice() offering higher-level general I/O methods for a serial device, such as auto_connect(), write() and query().

• Class Arduino() which wraps around SerialDevice(). In combination with DvG_StreamCommand it allows for automatically connecting to your Arduino(-like) device and for easy serial I/O communication.

• Separate PyQt/PySide interfaces are provided for each of these devices, offering out-of-the-box multithreaded data acquisition and communication. It relies on DvG_QDeviceIO.

• Ready-to-run PyQt/PySide demos to directly control many of the supported devices with a graphical user-interface.

Changelog

1.3.0 (2023-02-23)

• Added method BaseDevice.SerialDevice.query_bytes()

• Fixed type hints in BaseDevice.SerialDevice

1.2.0 (2022-09-14)

• Added support for PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2 and PySide6

1.1.0 (2022-02-01)

• Added method BaseDevice.SerialDevice.readline()

1.0.0 (2021-07-02)

• Stable release, identical to v0.2.6

0.2.6 (2021-03-02)

• Minor: Adjusted width of GUI control in Julabo_circulator_qdev.py

0.2.5 (2021-03-02)

• Loosened dependence to pyserial~= 3.4

0.2.4 (2021-03-02)

• Added device: Julabo circulator

0.2.3 (2020-08-27)

• Workaround for bug with unknown cause in Aim_TTi_PSU_protocol_RS232 where the power supply occasionally will skew the serial input and output stream, such that the reply matches the second-previous query statement. Fixed by forcefully flushing the serial input and output buffers whenever a wrong reply is received. Hopefully, this will fix the skew when the next query() operation gets executed.

0.2.2 (2020-08-27)

• Fixed bug in BaseDevice.query_ascii(). The use of ast.literal_eval got removed because it chokes on nan. Everything is now interpreted as a float instead.

0.2.1 (2020-08-12)

• Fix wrong import statement dvg-pyqt-controls

• Fix wrong import statement dvg-pyqt-filelogger

0.2.0 (2020-08-11)

• Added dependence dvg-pyqt-controls~=1.0

• Added dependence dvg-pyqt-filelogger~=1.0

• Added dependence dvg-pyqtgraph-threadsafe~=3.0

0.1.0 (2020-07-23)

• Fixed bug in BaseDevice.py where inspect.getouterframes() would momentarily suspend the thread. Solved by ditching inspect. The new ID_validation_query mechanism now relies on a simple boolean flag that gets set to force query() to raise on timeout.

• Update dependence dvg-qdeviceio==0.3.0

0.0.7 (2020-07-17)

• Update dependence dvg-qdeviceio==0.2.2

0.0.6 (2020-07-16)

• Finished implementing BaseDevice.SerialDevice()

• Update dependence dvg-qdeviceio==0.2.1

0.0.5 (2020-07-07)

• Update dependence dvg-qdeviceio==0.2.0 Enum DAQ_trigger is now called DAQ_TRIGGER

• Code style: Black

0.0.4 (2020-07-04)

• Update dependence dvg-qdeviceio==0.1.2

0.0.3 (2020-07-02)

• Fixed broken packaging

0.0.2 (2020-07-02)

• Major restructuring PyPI package

• Implemented DvG_QDeviceIO

0.0.1 (2020-07-01)

• First release on PyPI