Emotiv neuroheadset
This page describes the interface between the 14-channel Emotiv neuroheadset and the FieldTrip buffer.
The acquisition setup consists of the headset itself and a bluetooth dongle, which we talk to using the Emotiv SDK on Windows. We provide a standalone
tool called emotiv2ft (see realtime/datasource/emotiv) to grab data from the headset, and stream it to a FieldTrip buffer.
You can call this tool with the usual command line arguments, that is,
emotiv2ft <config-file> [hostname=localhost [port=1972 [ctrlPort=8000]]]
where replacing hostname by a minus (-) tells the software to spawn its own buffer server on the given port. When called without arguments other than the config file,
emotiv2ft will use localhost and 1972 as the default settings. Data will always be streamed out at the full sampling rate (128 Hz)
from all the channels.
The default config file is emotiv_config.txt which can be found in the same directory with emotiv2ft.
Note: If port 1972 cannot be accessed on a Windows machine it may help to first initialize the port from matlab, e.g., via ft_realtime_fileproxy
Installation
Please follow instructions here. You should first confirm that the default Emotiv software works. Subsequently you should start a command window (cmd.exe) and in that command window start the emotiv2ft.exe application with the correct command line options (see above).
Compilation
We provide a simple Makefile for the MinGW compiler, but you will need the Emotiv SDK.
Please go to the realtime/datasource/emotiv directory and type make or mingw32-make.
Note that you might need to compile the libbuffer library first.
