Pairing Opensesame with Biopac160 (AqcKnowledge)

FelixDM

Hi,

I have seen some discussions on related topics, but I am very not familiar with opensesame and I am not a tech savvy, so I feel like I need more basic advice.

I would like to pair my Biopac160 system (with AqcKnowledge) with Opensesame. I already have the parallel port plugin installed in my opensesame task.

My questions are:

1. I am trying to find my parallel port address. When I go to device manager, I seem to only find a COM port (and no LTP). Is it possible that my W10 computer only has serial ports?
2. I have put the trigger init at the beginning and I am able to put the plugin "trigger send" wherever I want in my experience. When I want to actually record theses triggers, how do I pair Aqcknowledge with my Opensesame experiment?

Thank you very much,

Félix

FelixDM

Having done some research meanwhile to understand the serial vs parallel port issue, I found this article by Biopac systems (https://www.biopac.com/knowledge-base/interface-with-visual-presentation-programs/). I believe my computer might be new and doesn't have parallel ports. Therefore, I guess my question would rather be how to insert serial port plugins in opensesame to send the triggers to Biopac?

Thanks,

FelixDM

Sorry for the incessant updates, but I found out my Biopac system is connected to my computer via a digital I/O port. From what I understand, this is also a parallel port, however it seems to show as a COM port when I look in device manager on my computer. Does it still work like a parallel port? If so, how can I pair it?

Thanks,

eduard

Hi Felix,

Have you seen these links:

https://www.pygaze.org/2018/12/biopac-mp160-in-python/

https://github.com/rmarkello/rtpeaks

Other than that, I don't think i can be of any help here.

Eduard