LabVIEW
Labview tool for psychometric project
LabVIEW is a programming language that can also interface with instruments, sensors and such.
You talk about "manage the data". What does this actually mean? Do you already have the data? Do you need to analyze it? store it? something else?
There are plenty of learning resource listed at the top of the forum. There are also example programs and templates included with the software.
From the manual as found here: https://thoughttechnology.com/content/docs/manual/SA7510%20Procomp%20Infiniti%20Manual.pdf
it seems to have an TT-USB or Pro-SB interface. However it talks about Window 2000 and XP. That is prehistoric!
TT-USB seems a proprietary USB driver interface that is most likely almost impossible to interface with LabVIEW without a lot of effort and extra low level information from Thought Technology, that most companies are very unwilling to provide. Generally companies tend to simply ignore any requests for such information without even acknowledging to have received your request.
Pro-SB seems to be a COM serial port interface so might actually work if you are able to get the command protocol specification used on that interface. It seems not available on the net though.
@VinzF wrote:
- Has anyone worked on something similar?
No, biosensor applications is not my area of expertise.
- What would be the easiest and most efficient approach?
Difficult to say without more detailed information. See below for more.
- Are there any known compatibility issues?
Generally, the TT-USB interface seems to be a proprietary USB device, with most likely its own USB protocol. This makes it anyhow very hard to interface from any application without very detailed documentation about the low level USB protocol. Even if it was a virtual COM port, simulating an RS-232 interface as far as the computer is concerned, you still will need to get the actual command and response protocol specification to talk to that device.
Even if someone might have done that in the past, by getting some non-public protocol information from somewhere, it is extremely unlikely that they will read your post here, and even if someone does read it, they may not be willing or allowed to tell you.
Your best bet is to contact the manufacturer and ask them about how to talk to that device from other applications than their own. But don't hold your breath for an answer. The support person answering your request may be unwilling to understand what you try to do and wanting to sell you their software and tell you that everything can be done perfectly in that application alone. That is if you even get any response at all.
If you get to talk to them, it may be useful to instead of mentioning that you try to use this obscure software called LabVIEW, you are actually trying to integrate it into a Python application. Most people by now have heard about Python and can somehow understand that it is something to make your own programs. If you get the information about how to interface to either their hardware or application through Python, it is usually fairly easy to adapt that knowledge to a LabVIEW solution, even without going through the Python node in LabVIEW.
