Unpack and calibrate binary data from a WetLabs ACS
Project description
pyACS
Python package to unpack and calibrate binary data from a WetLabs ACS
The ACS module can be loaded and used in a script or can be used as it stands to convert binary files recorded by Compass Software to CSV files.
Installation
The package runs with python 3 only. Install it with PyPI using the command:
pip install pyACS
Or from the sources available on GitHub repository. The distribution archive can be generated using:
python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
Convert binary to CSV files
The package can be used as it stands from the command line to convert binary files to
python -m pyACS [-h] [-v] [--version] [--auxiliaries] dvc src dst
positional arguments: dvc Device file. src Source file to decode and calibrate. dst Destination file of decoded and calibrated data.
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -v, --verbose Enable verbosity. --version Prints version information. --auxiliaries Output auxiliary data (internal and external temperatures).
Embed in other Software
The class ACS
provides key methods to handle the binary ACS data
read_device_file
: Parse device file to be able to unpack and calibrate binary frameunpack_frame
: Unpack/Decode binary frame into named tupleFrameContainer
calibrate_frame
: Convert engineering units (counts) into scientific units (1/m for a and c)
The class BinReader
helps to separate individual frames looking the registration bytes b'\xff\x00\xff\x00'
. An example of usage of that class is ConvertBinToCSV
which converts a binary file recorded with Compass into a CSV file.
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