numat / alicat

Python driver and command line tool for Alicat mass flow controllers.
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Batch mode #34

Open SmokeBellew77 opened 1 year ago

SmokeBellew77 commented 1 year ago

Hi! I'm just starting to work with Alicat flow controller. And I want to use batch mode for my application. Unfortunately I haven't found solution in this driver. Is it possible to use batch mode via python? Thanx in advanse!

alexrudd2 commented 1 year ago

Hello, thanks for the request.

Batch mode is currently not supported by this driver. I would be welcoming of a pull request to add that functionality, but I do not have any capable hardware to test.

It looks like there is partial support for batch mode in the other driver written by @JosephHickey1. Apparently it will not work on devices with GP firmware.

If you'd like to implement it yourself, I suggest reading the Alicat Serial Primer. Batch mode is described on pages 14 and 24

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