Installation

Requirements

glucid requires python >= 3, PySerial and:

  • a serial port connected to a Lucid ADA8824 rs232 interface
Usb - Serial 9-Pin Converter

By default, glucid assumes you are using a USB to 9-pin serial adapter on linux and defaults to /dev/ttyUSB0 , to overide this default, use the -d option. Windows users may try COM1 while OSX users may try /dev/tty.usbserial

Pre-Compiled Binaries

Check github for pre-built binaries for OSX and Windows at https://github.com/danmechanic/glucid/releases/latest

Installing glucid via pip

glucid can installed via pip

pip install glucid

Installing the latest version of glucid via git

You can clone the latest version of glucid via:

git clone https://github.com/danmechanic/glucid.git

And then install from the cloned source via:

cd glucid/
pip install -e .

Verifying correct installation

Within a terminal, you can first verify basic installation with:

glucid --help

You can launch the GUI interface with:

xglucid

In your Python distribution you may try to import the glucid8824 module:

from glucid import glucid8824 as glucid