parallel port plugin install with version 4

marcl

I don't use OS much; I inherited some experiments from a previous student. I'm now trying to update to v4. I need the parallel port plugin, but the documentation is not clear for installing a plugin: https://rapunzel.cogsci.nl/manual/environment/

I don't know where the environment.yaml should go.

In version 3, I had a plugin folder, but it's not there in v4 and the page for parallel port doesn't say how to install, e.g. where to put the files. I installed it with pip, but I'm still unable to open my experiment, I get this error:

No module named 'libqtopensesame.items.parallel_port_trigger'

Any help is appreciated.

P.S. I tried searching this forum, but the results are not sorted by date so it's not very useful.

eduard

Hi @marcl,

I guess the parallel port plugin is not available yet for Opensesame 4. @sebastiaan, is there a plan for adding it, or does it depend on somebody else?

You might want to look into using Python directly (from within Opensesame) to connect to parallel ports. The Pyparallel package is the one to use, I believe.

Eduard

sebastiaan

Hi @marcl and @eduard ,

This plugin is maintained by @Bob , who has released a version on PyPi that is compatible with OpenSesame 4.0. So you should be able to install the plugin simply by running the following command in the IPython console:

pip install opensesame-plugin-parallel-port-trigger

I haven't tested this myself though, so let us know how this works.

— Sebastiaan