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Hello everyone,

I wanted to know whether LIVECODE has the ability to interface with the BIOPAC system for recording skin conductance responses. If anyone knows anything, or knows where I can look for resources, please let me know.

Thanks!

BIOPAC offers a scripting interface:
https://www.biopac.com/scripts/

I would imagine you could trigger those scripts with LiveCode Script's shell function, no?

If you need lower-level access, such as to any C++ APIs BIOPAC may also offer, you should be able to address those with LiveCode Builder.

The BIOPAC scripting interface is within the BIOPAC software itself, not for communication between presentation software and BIOPAC. Thank you for your suggestion though.

I need to be able to interface Livecode and BIOPAC from separate computers. I need to be able to have Livecode send a message to the BIOPAC software telling the software to set an event mark in the data.

https://www.biopac.com/product/api-biopac-hardware/

starfirescully wrote:The BIOPAC scripting interface is within the BIOPAC software itself, not for communication between presentation software and BIOPAC. Thank you for your suggestion though.

I need to be able to interface Livecode and BIOPAC from separate computers. I need to be able to have Livecode send a message to the BIOPAC software telling the software to set an event mark in the data.

If BIOPAC offers no network access then some form of that would need to be added to the system. Would it be practical to use Apache, with PHP, LiveCode, Perl, or some other middleware that manages the requests and obtains what it needs from BIOPAC for the reply?

If this is on a local (and trusted) network you might even be able to mod the libHTTPd now included with LC v9 to provide a simple HTTP-based API.

Thank you for your comments. It looks like all I would have to do to communicate with the BIOPAC is to send signals to specific pins on a parallel port cable. I am now grappling with this!

Thanks again!