sdss-flicamera

flicamera

A library to control Finger Lakes Instrumentation cameras. It provides the SDSS gfaCamera and fvcCamera actors to control the Guide, Focus and Acquisition cameras and Field View Camera, respectively.

Installation

In general you should be able to install flicamera by doing

pip install sdss-flicamera

Although flicamera should handle all the compilation of the FLI libraries, you may still need to modify your system to give your user access to the FLI USB devices. See here for more details.

To build from source, use

git clone [e-mail]:sdss/flicamera
cd flicamera
pip install .[docs]

Development

flicamera uses poetry for dependency management and packaging. To work with an editable install it's recommended that you setup poetry and install flicamera in a virtual environment by doing

poetry install

Pip does not support editable installs with PEP-517 yet. That means that running pip install -e . will fail because poetry doesn't use a setup.py file. As a workaround, you can use the create_setup.py file to generate a temporary setup.py file. To install flicamera in editable mode without poetry, do

pip install --pre poetry
python create_setup.py
pip install -e .