pyelixys is a library for communicating with the Sofie Biosciences Elixys hardware. The the hardware is a design based upon the mbed development board. It communicates with the hardware using the websocket protocol. This library abstracts the hardware to python objects.

First you should install python and virtualenv.

pip install virtualenv

Now setup the pyelixys sandbox environment

virtualenv pyelixys
cd pyelixys

Active the sandbox environment

source bin/activate

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:henryeherman/pyelixys.git
cd pyelixys

Install the python dependencies using pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

If installing on linux, you will need numpy. To install numpy in a virtualenv requires the python dev package. Before installing the requirements with pip run the following command.

sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev