NAME¶
egd_open - Open an EEG device
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <eegdev.h>
struct eegdev* egd_open(const char* devstring);
DESCRIPTION¶
egd_open() opens a EEG device according to the
devstring
description. If
devstring is NULL, the first device supported by the
library will be opened.
The
devstring argument specifies the type of EEG device required to be
opened and the parameters parameters which the system should be configured
with (overriding defaults settings). The syntax of the string is defined in
eegdev-open-options(5).
The syntax may change in future releases and programs should not rely on it to
configure the device. It is provided only to users of the programs to select
the EEG acquisition device and configure it. Programs using the eegdev library
should pass the string provided by the users untouched.
devstring is not the only way to provides configuration information about
the device to open. The configuration is read from the configuration files.
The final values of the settings provided to the opening function are defined
(and overriden) in the following order:
- *
- default values
- *
- shared configuration file
- *
- device specific configuration file
- *
- devstring
This order indicates that a setting value specified in
devstring will
always override any setting value defined by other mean.
RETURN VALUE¶
The function returns a pointer to the opened EEG device in case of success.
Otherwise NULL is returned
errno is set accordingly.
ERRORS¶
egd_open() will fail if:
- ENOSYS
- the device part of devstring does not refer to a device supported
by any of the installed eegdev plugin modules.
- EINVAL
- one of the option specified in devstring is unknown.
- ENODEV
- The specified device is not connected.
- EBUSY
- The specified device is already in use.
- ECHILD
- The specified device needs an auxiliary child process whose executable
file cannot be found.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- EEGDEV_PLUGINS_DIR
- This variable controls which folder should be search to find plugin
modules. If unset, they will be searched in the subfolder eegdev of
the installation folder of the libraries.
- EEGDEV_CONF_DIR
- This variable controls which folder should be search to find the
configuration files. If unset, they will be searched in
/etc/eegdev.
SEE ALSO¶
egd_close(3),
eegdev-open-options(5)