Pynetstation-Plug-In

Plug-in for OpenSesame to use EGI’s Netstation EEG software

This plug-in includes 8 items:

• pynetstation source files (in folder egi) ——These files are almost identical to the ones available at https://code.google.com/p/pynetstation/ except a correction in the padding function and editing of the fake.py to make better use of a fake Netstation connection in the OpenSesame environment
• pynetstation initializer ——This should be used once in any experiment(will throw an error if used more than that) if you want to create multiple Netstation recordings in a single experiment use the pynetstation reinit item after you end any sessions in your experiment. Really cool: set your threading to Faker! and you can try out your experiment and get feedback without actually being connected to Netstation, really useful if you are like me and don’t have an EGI set up at home to work with and would rather not live in your lab space.
• pynetstation start recording ——Pretty straight forward, presses record in Netstation
• pynetstation pause recording ——Pretty straight forward, presses pause in Netstation
• pynetstation begin trials ——This tells Netstation to synchronize its clock with Opensesame, which is crucial during experiments as the clock drifts over time. Make sure this is within the loop you want to record events from.
• pynetstation send tags ——Sends Netstation events from OpenSesame, fill in the blanks with your information for your event.
• pynetstation end ——Pretty straight forward, saves and closes the Netstation session
• pynetstation re-initializer ——Use this after you use ‘pynetstation end’ in your experiment to reconnect to Netstation. Just make sure you open a new recording session in Netstation before running this, or you’ll crash the experiment.