[FieldTrip] signal acquisition with Biosemi

[Severens, Marianne]

Hi Sophie

I've checked the script that we use to startup the buffer in our lab. Apparently you need to type ./ before the command. This is what our script looks like:
cd to the /fieldtrip/realtime/acquisition/biosemi/ folder.
Then run the biosemi2ft: ./biosemi2ft (with optional parameters)

I think you can also put a path in the gdf filename, so it does not save it in the fieldtrip folder, but you will have to check that.

I hope this works for you!
Best, Marianne
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From: fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl [fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl] On Behalf Of Sophie ADAMA [adama.sophie at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 6:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] signal acquisition with Biosemi

Hi Marianne,

There are 3 biosemi2ft in that folder : biosemi2ft.cc, biosemi2ft.exe and biosemi2ft.maci; but when I type ../fieldtrip/realtime/acquisition/biosemi/biosemi2ft
in the command line, it says No such file or directory.

Sophie

From: fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl [mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl] On Behalf Of Severens, Marianne
Sent: vendredi 10 février 2012 15:46
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Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] signal acquisition with Biosemi

Hi Sophie

Are you sure that the correct version of the biosemi2ft (so the one for the mac) is in the folder that you are specifying? Maybe you can try it first without the optional parameters, so just
../fieldtrip/realtime/acquisition/biosemi/biosemi2ft

Best, Marianne

From: fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl<mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl> [mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl]<mailto:[mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl]> On Behalf Of Sophie ADAMA
Sent: vrijdag 10 februari 2012 14:54
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Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] signal acquisition with Biosemi

Hi,

I tried it on Windows too, and it works perfectly.

But I’m a Mac girl ☺ and I will be happy if someone could help me.

Thank you


From: fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl<mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl> [mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl]<mailto:[mailto:fieldtrip-bounces at donders.ru.nl]> On Behalf Of Hamza Fawzi Altakroury (Student)
Sent: vendredi 10 février 2012 06:26
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Subject: Re: [FieldTrip] signal acquisition with Biosemi

Hello,

I tried the biosemi2tf.exe command it works well on Windows.

But, unfortunately I don't know about the Mac OS.

Best,

Hamza
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Sophie ADAMA <adama.sophie at gmail.com<mailto:adama.sophie at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,

Thanks for your response.

I tried that but I get this: command not found. I am using Mac OS Lion.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Sophie
Le 09.02.12 17:56, Robert Oostenveld a écrit :
On behalf of Philip...


On 9 Feb 2012, at 15:31, Philip van den Broek wrote:


Dear Sophie and Hamza,

The connection between the Biosemi Active2 system and the FieldTrip buffer is handled by interfacing software biosemi2ft (part of fieldtrip), and should be started from the terminal (mac) or command prompt (windows).

The interfacing software is located in the FieldTrip folder: ../fieldtrip/realtime/acquisition/biosemi/biosemi2ft

The BioSemi system needs a configuration (.cfg) file in which some acquisition-related settings are specified. Configuration files for the BioSemi system specify for example from how many channels data should be streamed and/or recorded, and whether the data should be downsampled. For more information about configuration files for different acquisition systems, see the Fieldtrip website<http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/development/realtime/biosemi>.

To start the buffer that connects to the Biosemi Active2, open the terminal (Mac) or command prompt (PC) and in the folder where you would like to save your data execute (change path according to your system and location of fieldtrip toolbox):

../fieldtrip/realtime/acquisition/biosemi/biosemi2ft <config_file> <gdf-file> <hostname> <port>



<config_file>: configuration file

<gdf-file>: base name of the gdf file. The suffix .gdf and session counters will be added automatically.

<hostname>: optional, default is 'localhost', specify '-' to spawn a local buffer (recommended)

<port>: optional, default is 1972

an example:

../fieldtrip/realtime/acquisition/biosemi/biosemi2ft myconfig.cfg myfile - 1972

Note that the manually specified name of the file will overwrite any existing file, so make sure myfile.gdf doesn't exist.
Once this is running, you get access to the data through the fieldtrip buffer filled with data by biosemi2ft, i.e., fieldtrip fileio functions give you access to the data:
ft_read_header('buffer://localhost:1972'), or
ft_read_data('buffer://localhost:1972','begsample',1,'endsample',100,........
For further information, see fieldtrip website.

(more info on how we use the system at our department can be found here: http://www.nici.ru.nl/brainstream/twiki/bin/view/BrainStreamDocs/DocsSectionsInstallation)

Hope this helps you to get things running in your place. If you have any further questions, just let me know.

Best regards,

Philip van den Broek
Radboud University Nijmegen
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Centre for Cognition

P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen
Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen
The Netherlands



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