setup_software.md

Virtual environment

You first need to install Anaconda on your system. You will want to create a conda environment for executing the code. Start by setting up the environment, as instructured for TRex. In most situations, this amounts to running the following command at the terminal:

conda create -n wake -c trexing trex

You will then want to active the new environment:

conda activate wake

Running experiments

For running experiments, you will need DMXEnttecPro for controlling a Enttec DMX USB Pro, which controls the lights. This may be installed as follows:

pip install DMXEnttecPro timer plotly playsound multiprocess python-kasa asyncio

And the following:

pip3 install PyObjC

Acquiring kinematics

You will then want to install packages into that environment that are called by our code. For the kinematics, these packages can be installed as follows:

pip install ipyparallel jupyter numpy matplotlib pandas

And the following:

conda install -c conda-forge opencv

For my M1 Mac, I had to install the openblas package. After reinstalling numpy, I then had to reinstall TRex (conda install -c trexing trex).