Data acquisition?

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

While Octave is very good at numerical analysis, it is not a complete
programming language with a large library for example for connexion.

I would suggest that you have a look at python and its libraries as a
way to manage your apparatus.

First http://pyserial.wiki.sourceforge.net/pySerial and then many
others. Python also contains many libraries to manipulate data easily
"à la octave way" (see scipy, numpy and pylab).

Regards,

Nicolas

2009/1/25 Matthias Brennwald <matthias at brennwald.org>:
> Dear all
>
> I have a gas chromatography system in my lab (essentially this: http://www.thermo.com/com/cda/product/detail/0,1055,18759,00.html
>  ). The machine talks to a computer via the serial port and an
> ethernet connection (to contol the machine and to acquire data). While
> the system does come with software to control the machine and manage
> data acquisition, I'm looking for something that gives me a bit more
> control over the raw data. I thought that maybe Octave would provide a
> nice basis for such a system. However, I have no clue if and how it
> will be possible to control the machine from within Octave and get the
> data into Octave. I tried Google, but I wasn't very sucessful (I also
> tried a Google search with Matlab instead of Octave). I'd be glad for
> pointers and comments regarding this idea... is there a way to make
> Octave or Matlab talk to my machine?
>
> Matthias
>
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