Windows 11 Ephys machine setup - theunissenlab/lab-documentation GitHub Wiki

Installed choco as a package manager

iwr -useb community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1 | iex

powershell tip: to see all current local variables go to cd ENV:

to check what paths are present in an environment go to: (cat ENV:Path) -Split ";"

Set permenant variables like so:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("TEST", "VALUE", "User")

or temporary viarbles like so:

$ENV:TEST = "VALUE"

We are using pyenv to handle environments. To switch python versions simply use:

PS> pyenv global 3.10.5
PS> python -V
Python 3.10.5
PS> pyenv global 3.9.12
PS> python -V
Python 3.9.12

Added powershell command to activate environment

function envactivate ($envname) {
	echo $envname
	Push-Location
	Set-Location $Env:ENVDIR
	& $envname\Scripts\activate
	Pop-Location
}

Now environments (made in $ENVDIR, or C:\Users\theunissen\Code\pyenv) can be activated by envactivate $envname

First I installed NidaqMX from Here

had to install numpy,nidaqmx python, pyyamp

NOTE nidaqmx is not the package our implementation of pyoperant uses... we use pylibnidaqmx

To start an operant ephys experiment. First set up the experiment folder

OperantEphys/
---ExperimentName
------Configs/*.yaml
------Stimuli/<Folders>/*.wav

Once this is set up, edit the yaml config file to point to the correct experiment path and stim folders

in local_chronic.py point to the correct config file, and run.