pyilluminate

Python interface for controlling the Illuminate boards.

All units to this interface are in SI units.

Copyright (C) 2018-2022, Ramona Optics, Inc.

0.6.19 (2022/10/16)

• improve release process.

0.6.18 (2022/10/16)

• Lazy import xarray to speedup import time.
• Imporve import time by using miniver instead of versioneer

0.6.17 (2022/05/03)

• When opening teensies, ensure that only known devices are opened. (0.6.16 was broken)

0.6.16 (2022/05/03)

• When opening teensies, ensure that only known devices are opened.

0.6.15 (2022/04/21)

• Make the Illuminate driver thread safe.

0.6.14 (2022/03/15)

• Ensure that LEDs that are individually turned off are removed from the LED list accessible through Illuminate.led.

0.6.13 (2022/02/28)

• Ensure compatibility with future versions of the firmware where the setBrightness command will be removed.
• Add Python slots to help avoid typos when controlling the instrument.

0.6.12 (2022/02/23)

• Removed unused current detection code.

0.6.11 (2021/10/30)

• Ensure compatibility with filelock 3.3.2. Requires multiuserfilelock package.

0.6.9 (2021/08/04)

• Changed default in Illuminate.find_max_brightness to use current color for the ratio.

0.6.8 (2021/08/03)

• Add an error when users try to access colour property instead of color.

0.6.7 (2021/07/19)

• Minimize occurance of spurious failures upon opening the LED boards for the first time.

0.6.6 (2021/07/15)

• Ensured that color property has a maximum value of 255.0 for all three color channels. A warning is provided to users when they set the colors above the maximal value.

0.6.5 (2021/04/13)

• Avoid bogus errors on the system trying to recover from a serial error caused by undefined _led_state.

0.6.4 (2021/03/20)

• Fixed typo in docs of Illuminate.find_max_brightness causing a section header to be mis-identified.

0.6.3 (2021/03/08)

• Fixed a bug where estimating the maximum brigthness can return values that are too large for small numbers of LEDs.

0.6.2 (2021/03/04)

• Docstring formatting fixes.

0.6.1 (2021/03/01)

• Add a property for getting and setting the maximum allowed current on the board.
• Add a property for getting the maximum current per LED channel.
• Add a function for calculating the maximum allowed brightness values.

0.6.0 (2020/12/29)

• Remove LEDColor.

0.5.19 (2020/09/05)

• Fix a bug where the previous pattern would continue to appear when sending long lists of LEDs.

0.5.18 (2020/08/23)

• The led attribute is not available to read before ever setting it.

0.5.17 (2020/08/16)

• Avoid buffer overflow errors by ensuring that strings are cut in 64 bytes. This may make custom LED commands slower.

0.5.16 (2020/08/06)

• FakeIlluminate device now has an ignored led_type parameter for fill_array.

0.5.15 (2020/08/05)

• LED state now correctly initialized to avoid spurious errors.

0.5.14 (2020/08/05)

• LED boards can now report the value of the color for all LEDs in the led_colors property.

0.5.13 (2020/08/04)

• Better detection of autoUpdate feature without loading the full Help file.

0.5.12 (2020/08/04)

• Enable downstream to override how led_positions are obtained.

0.5.11 (2020/07/27)

• Better recovery from serial exceptions during boot up procedure.

0.5.10 (2020/07/22)

• Ignore serial communication errors upon closing are ignored.

0.5.9 (2020/07/19)

• Fix openning device by serial number.

0.5.8 (2020/07/19)

• Better handler for lock timeout for downstream developers.

0.5.7 (2020/07/19)

• Multiple users can attempt to use the pyilluminate boards at the same time.

0.5.6 (2020/07/19)

• Bugfix: LED boards can be open by specifying port parameter again.
• Private functions for lock and unlock for downstream developers.

0.5.5 (2020/07/06)

• Better support for very long lists of LEDs (best with firmware update).
• System now raises an error upon using the common typo Illuminate.leds = ...
• Locks are used to avoid multiple applications from attempting to control the Illuminate board at the same time.

0.5.4 (2020/06/30)

• Distribution name changed from pyIlluminate to pyilluminate.

0.5.3 (2020/06/29)

• Initial support for 16 bit precision drivers.

0.5.2 (2020/06/28)

• First release on GitHub.

0.5.1 (2020/06/27)

• Initialize all LED arrays with max brightness.

0.5.0 (2020/06/27)

• Autoclear enable/disable functionality can be used to draw LEDs with different colors.
• Deprecate the use of the LEDColor class.

0.4.7 (2019/12/12)

• Better error messages when a device isn't found.

0.4.6 (2019/11/18)

• list_serial_numbers returns serial numbers again

0.4.5 (2019/11/14)

• Not finding any devices raises a better error message.

0.4.4 (2019/09/20)

• Package no longer vendors dataclasses

0.4.3 (2019/09/20)

• Package is no a noarch package.

0.4.2 (2019/09/19)

• JSONDecodeError are alleviated in Windows making opening the LED board more consistent.

0.4.1 (2019/09/01)

• BUGFIX: Setting the buffer size now only occurs on platforms that support it. This bug was introduced in 0.4.0 and manifested itself as the inability to open the device on linux

0.4.0 (2019/08/26)

• Refactored how devices are identified. They are not identified by their serial numbers instead of their MAC Address. This avoids port knocking and ensures that openning devices is now faster especially when trying to connect to multiple Illuminate devices connected to a single computer.

0.3.2 (2019/08/19)

• Fixed up a typo that would cause an error to occur in positions_as_xarray.

0.3.1 (2019/05/22)

• Improved the error message when trying to open an Serial connection that is already in use.

0.3.0

• Illuminate.led_positions is now an xarray instead of a numpy struct array.
• Illuminate.positions_as_xarray() is deprecated in favour of Illuminate.led_positions.
• The attribute Illuminate.color can now be set with either a tuple or a simple scalar.

release-0.2.9

• Better access to the color/bightness property
• The array will turn itself off once you close python
• Clears LEDs when setting individual LEDs too.