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FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:00:44 -0000

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-Q: How to compile Biosig on/for Windows ?
+Q: Biosig on Windows ?
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-A: There are several approaches, like mingw/mxe, cygwin, WSL. For development and testing, I'm using mingw-cross-environment (mxe) 
-https://github.com/schloegl/mxe , together with wine. You can also download the precompiled binaries of libbiosig. Binaries for
-win32 and win64 are provided. And its save to rename libbiosig2.a to libbiosig2.lib if needed.
-
+A: Biosig-tools and Libbiosig require GCC and can be compiled with Mingw, and Cygwin, and can be also used with WSL. Biosig does not compiled with VC++, 
+The language bindings are more difficult, because not all environments are available in the same way on these platforms. 
+We are using  mingw-cross-environment (MXE)  https://github.com/schloegl/mxe for Matlab and Mathematica bindings. The octave bindings are compiled within mxe-octave. The Python bindings for Windows are currently available only on Cygwin.
+    


 Q: Is the EDFplus sub-second issue of the start time resolved ?

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:04:22 -0000

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 A: First make sure that libbiosig is installed on your platform (from source, apt-get, homebrew), you can just run

 ~~~~
-pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/mexbiosig-2.3.1.src.tar.gz 
+pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/mexbiosig-2.3.2.src.tar.gz 
 ~~~~

 The full package of Biosig (including mexBiosig) can be installed with
 ~~~~
-pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/biosig4octave-2.3.1.src.tar.gz 
+pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/biosig4octave-2.3.2.src.tar.gz 
 ~~~~

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:03:47 -0000

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 Q: I'd like to load and view data, and add annotations. How can I do that ? 
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 A: There are some simple viewer, like sview, and sviewer. However, if
-you want a Viewing and Scoring software, I recommend "sigviewer", a
-stand-alone executable viewer, without the need to matlab. Sigviewer
-allows to read many different file format, and markers, annotations etc.
-can be exported into GDF/EVT files, which can than be read again into
+you want a Viewing and Scoring software, I recommend "SigViewer", a
+stand-alone executable viewer, without the need of matlab. Sigviewer
+uses libbiosig as for loading and importing, and thus can read all data formats supported by Biosig. 
+Data, events,  markers, and annotations etc. can be exported into GDF/EVT files, which can than be read again into
 Matlab.
-

 Q: what's the difference between "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" and "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" (biosig4octmat) ?  
@@ -104,7 +103,7 @@
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 Alternatively, you can extract the sources into any suitable directory. 

-In order to use, you just need to include the various directory path within matlab or octave. Start Matlab (or Octave) and run 
+In order to use it, you just need to include the various directory path within matlab or octave. Start Matlab (or Octave) and run 
 ~~~~
    cd /usr/local/share/biosig/matlab
    install

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:58:12 -0000

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-Q: what's the difference betwen "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" and "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" (biosig4octmat) ?  
+Q: what's the difference between "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" and "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" (biosig4octmat) ?  
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 A: mexBiosig is mainly about data import and export. mexBiosig provides the mex-functions (mexSLOAD, mexSOPEN, mexSSAVE, physicalunts). In order to install it, you need compiler and developer tools. For some platforms, precompiled binaries are provided.

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:57:44 -0000

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:55:14 -0000

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 On recent Debian/Ubuntu, you can do 
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-   sudo apt-get install python3-biosig python3-numpy  python3-simplejson
+   sudo apt-get install python3-biosig python3-numpy python3-simplejson
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 On MacOSX, you can do 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@

 If libbiosig (>1.9.2) is available on your system, you can also do 
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-   pip install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/Biosig-2.0.4.tar.gz
+   pip install Biosig
 ~~~~

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:20:20 -0000

--- v35
+++ v36
@@ -45,7 +45,12 @@
 A: First make sure that libbiosig is installed on your platform (from source, apt-get, homebrew), you can just run

 ~~~~
-pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/mexbiosig-2.0.4.src.tar.gz
+pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/mexbiosig-2.3.1.src.tar.gz 
+~~~~
+
+The full package of Biosig (including mexBiosig) can be installed with
+~~~~
+pkg install https://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/prereleases/biosig4octave-2.3.1.src.tar.gz 
 ~~~~

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:16:18 -0000

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@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@

 Q: what's the difference betwen "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" and "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" (biosig4octmat) ?  
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-A: mexBiosig provides some mex-functions (mexSLOAD, mexSOPEN, mexSSAVE, physicalunts) to interface with libbiosig for accessing data of varios biomedical signal sources. In order to install it, you need compiler and developer tools, or precompiled binaries. 
-
-"Biosig for Octave and Matlab" contain a large number of m-file tools for analyzing biomedical signals, examples are EEG analysis for BCI research, ECG analysis, connectivity analysis etc. The tools are categorized in different subdirectory, e.g. t200 for file I/O, 250 for preprocessing, t300 for feature extraction, t400 for classification, etc.  
+A: mexBiosig is mainly about data import and export. mexBiosig provides the mex-functions (mexSLOAD, mexSOPEN, mexSSAVE, physicalunts). In order to install it, you need compiler and developer tools. For some platforms, precompiled binaries are provided. 
+
+"Biosig for Octave and Matlab" contain a large number of higher level tools nalyzing biomedical signals, examples are EEG analysis for BCI research, ECG analysis, connectivity analysis etc. The tools are categorized in different subdirectory, e.g. t200 for file I/O, 250 for preprocessing, t300 for feature extraction, t400 for classification, etc.  These are written in pure Matlab/Octave code and no compiler is needed. 


 Q: How to install "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" in Octave ?

FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:08:01 -0000

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+++ v34
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@



-Q: what's the difference betwen "mexBiosig" and "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" (biosig4octmat) ?  
+Q: what's the difference betwen "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" and "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" (biosig4octmat) ?  
 ---------------------------------------------
 A: mexBiosig provides some mex-functions (mexSLOAD, mexSOPEN, mexSSAVE, physicalunts) to interface with libbiosig for accessing data of varios biomedical signal sources. In order to install it, you need compiler and developer tools, or precompiled binaries. 

 "Biosig for Octave and Matlab" contain a large number of m-file tools for analyzing biomedical signals, examples are EEG analysis for BCI research, ECG analysis, connectivity analysis etc. The tools are categorized in different subdirectory, e.g. t200 for file I/O, 250 for preprocessing, t300 for feature extraction, t400 for classification, etc.  


-Q: How to install "mexBiosig" in Octave ?  
+Q: How to install "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" in Octave ?  
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 A: First make sure that libbiosig is installed on your platform (from source, apt-get, homebrew), you can just run 

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 libbiosig is also part of mxe-octave, and is available in Octave-for-Windows (v5.2.0 or later), and so the command above will also work. 


-Q: How to install "mexBiosig" in Matlab on *nix system ?  
+Q: How to install "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" in Matlab on *nix system ?  
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 A: in order to install mexbiosig for matlab, download and extract the source distribtion, and run the following commands:
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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
    biosig4c++/mex/*.mex*
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-Q: How to install "mexBiosig" in Matlab on MacOSX?  
+Q: How to install "mexBiosig/mexSLOAD" in Matlab on MacOSX?  
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 A: in order to install mexbiosig for matlab, download and extract the source distribtion, and run the following commands:
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FAQ modified by Alois Schloegl

Alois Schloegl — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:21:47 -0000

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 A: in order to install mexbiosig for matlab, download and extract the source distribtion, and run the following commands:
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+      # get all dependencies of biosig, and libbiosig
+     brew install biosig
+
+     # get repository 
+     git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/biosig/code biosig-code
+     cd biosig-code
      # Configure matlab  
      ./configure MATLAB=/Application/MATLAB_R2019a.app/bin/matlab
      make -C biosig4c++  mex4m