Problem connecting to NeuroSky MindSet with high COM port
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:25 am
Hey all-
Thanks for adding NeuroSky MindSet support to the recent OpenViBE release!
I downloaded the pre-compiled binaries for Windows, but ran into a problem with the acquisition server detecting my MindSet. As you can see from the attached image below, my MindSet receives a high COM port under Windows XP - COM41 in my case. However, OpenViBE only appears to search as high as COM16, and I can't manually tell it to look any higher in the Device configuration menu as the dropdown doesn't display correctly.
I am using the Toshiba Bluetooth stack under Windows XP (32 bit SP3), as the Toshiba stack is what is distributed by NeuroSky with the MindSet's driver disk.
I figured this should be an easy patch to contribute and using a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Express have successfully compiled from latest SVN trunk (r2258), however the NeuroSky MindSet is not listed in my newly-compiled acquisition server. Is there some special setting I need to enable to build the driver?
Finally, I attempted a build under Linux (this time using source from the pre-packaged 0.7.0-svn2254 release), but noticed a warning message that the MindSet was only supported under Windows. I haven't delved into it too far myself, but they do publish a document covering the serial communications protocol for coding directly to the Bluetooth device, instead of depending on any platform-specific libraries. Was that used or considered for the current acquisition server driver?
Cheers
Steve Castellotti
Thanks for adding NeuroSky MindSet support to the recent OpenViBE release!
I downloaded the pre-compiled binaries for Windows, but ran into a problem with the acquisition server detecting my MindSet. As you can see from the attached image below, my MindSet receives a high COM port under Windows XP - COM41 in my case. However, OpenViBE only appears to search as high as COM16, and I can't manually tell it to look any higher in the Device configuration menu as the dropdown doesn't display correctly.
I am using the Toshiba Bluetooth stack under Windows XP (32 bit SP3), as the Toshiba stack is what is distributed by NeuroSky with the MindSet's driver disk.
I figured this should be an easy patch to contribute and using a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Express have successfully compiled from latest SVN trunk (r2258), however the NeuroSky MindSet is not listed in my newly-compiled acquisition server. Is there some special setting I need to enable to build the driver?
Finally, I attempted a build under Linux (this time using source from the pre-packaged 0.7.0-svn2254 release), but noticed a warning message that the MindSet was only supported under Windows. I haven't delved into it too far myself, but they do publish a document covering the serial communications protocol for coding directly to the Bluetooth device, instead of depending on any platform-specific libraries. Was that used or considered for the current acquisition server driver?
Cheers
Steve Castellotti