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Communicate to another program on the same machine

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KatrinaMcDonough	KatrinaMcDonough posted 3 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 45, Visits: 235	Hello, I would like to send real time information from a task in inquisit to another program (using python) on the same computer. Specifically, I would like to send timing information to a python script outside inquisit that controls a robotic device that we want to interact with the task. Is this possible? Thanks, Katrina
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Dave	Dave posted 3 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 105K	+x KatrinaMcDonough - 10/25/2022 Hello, I would like to send real time information from a task in inquisit to another program (using python) on the same computer. Specifically, I would like to send timing information to a python script outside inquisit that controls a robotic device that we want to interact with the task. Is this possible? Thanks, Katrina You can try something like creating a virtual serial port, having your Inquisit script send TTL signals to that port, having the Python script read from the port and acting on that information.
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Dave	Dave posted 3 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 105K	+x Dave - 10/25/2022 +x KatrinaMcDonough - 10/25/2022 Hello, I would like to send real time information from a task in inquisit to another program (using python) on the same computer. Specifically, I would like to send timing information to a python script outside inquisit that controls a robotic device that we want to interact with the task. Is this possible? Thanks, Katrina You can try something like creating a virtual serial port, having your Inquisit script send TTL signals to that port, having the Python script read from the port and acting on that information. Another potential option: Run a local web server in Python and you should be able to have the Inquisit script send requests to that local web server with <html> elements; your Python script should be able to read in that information and control the robotic device accordingly. Edited 3 Years Ago by Dave
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KatrinaMcDonough	KatrinaMcDonough posted 3 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 45, Visits: 235	+x Dave - 10/25/2022 +x KatrinaMcDonough - 10/25/2022 Hello, I would like to send real time information from a task in inquisit to another program (using python) on the same computer. Specifically, I would like to send timing information to a python script outside inquisit that controls a robotic device that we want to interact with the task. Is this possible? Thanks, Katrina You can try something like creating a virtual serial port, having your Inquisit script send TTL signals to that port, having the Python script read from the port and acting on that information. We created a virtual serial port as suggested and this works great, thanks!
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