COMEDI wrapper (was: Re: Data acquisition in Octave)

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:04:49PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 19-Nov-2008, Olaf Till wrote:
> 
> | Data aquisition on Linux is mostly done (and should be done) with the
> | so called Comedi drivers and the Comedi library. They have good
> | support for National Instruments cards.
> | 
> | AFAIK there is no general interface of Octave to Comedi as
> | yet.
> 
> I have the beginnings of a package here:
> 
>   ftp://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave-comedi/comedi-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> ...
>
> I don't have any data acquisition hardware so my only testing was to
> try a few things using the comedi_test driver.  I could use some help
> with testing, bug fixes, or additional code...
> 
It's nice that such a wrapper package already exists. I did not know
it, and I will investigate it now, hope I can help a bit. It will take
some days though.

Olaf