Discovery

A module that provides methods for discovering brainstem modules over USB and TPCIP.

The discovery module provides an interface for locating BrainStem modules accross multiple transports. It provides a way to find all modules for a give transport as well as specific modules by serial number, or first found. The result of a call to one of the discovery functions is either a list of brainstem.link.Spec objects, or a single brainstem.link.Spec.

The Discovery module allows users to find specific brainstem devices via their serial number, or a list of all devices connected to the host via usb or on the same subnet via TCP/IP. In all cases a Spec object is returned with connection details for the device. In addition do connection details, the BrainStem model is returned. This model is one of a list of BrainStem device model numbers which are accessible via the defs module.

A typical interactive python session finding all connected USB modules might look like the following.

>> import brainstem >> module_list = brainstem.discover.findAllModules(brainstem.link.Spec.USB) >> print [str(s) for s in module_list] [‘Model: 4 LinkType: USB(serial: 0xCB4A3B25, module: 0)’, ‘Model: 13 LinkType: USB(serial: 0x40F5849A, module: 0)’]

For an overview of links, discovery and the Brainstem network see the Acroname BrainStem Reference

class brainstem.discover.DeviceNode[source]
Python representation of DeviceNode_t (C structure)

  • hub_serial_number (uint32_t): Serial number of the Acroname hub where the device was found.

  • hub_port (uint8_t): Port of the Acroname hub where the device was found.

  • id_vendor (uint16_t): Manufactures Vendor ID of the downstream device.

  • id_product (uint16_t): Manufactures Product ID of the downstream device.

  • speed (enumeration): The devices downstream device speed.

    • Unknown (0)

    • Low Speed (1)

    • Full Speed (2)

    • High Speed (3)

    • Super Speed (4)

    • Super Speed Plus (5)

  • product_name (string): USB string descriptor.

  • manufacture (string): USB string descriptor.

  • serial_number (string): USB string descriptor.

brainstem.discover.findAllModules(transports, aether_config=<brainstem.link.aEtherConfig object>)[source]

Return a list of Specs for all modules found on the transports given.

Transports can be presented as a list, and the results would be a list of all modules found for those transports. TCPIP modules take a little longer to find due to the Multicast and gather necessary for finding modules on the local network segment.

Parameters:

transports (list(int)) – A list of transports or a single transport.

Returns:

A list of the Specs for all modules found.

Return type:

list(Spec)

brainstem.discover.findFirstModule(transport, aether_config=<brainstem.link.aEtherConfig object>)[source]

Return the Spec for the first module found on the given transport.

TCPIP modules take a little longer to find due to the Multicast and gather necessary for finding modules on the local network segment.

args:

transport (int): One of USB or TCPIP.

return:
Spec: The connection spec of the first module found on the

given transport.

brainstem.discover.findModule(transports, serial_number, aether_config=<brainstem.link.aEtherConfig object>)[source]

Return the Spec for the module with the given serial number.

Transports can be presented as a list. TCPIP modules take a little longer to find due to the Multicast and gather necessary for finding modules on the local network segment.

Parameters:

  • transports (list(int)) – A list of transports or a single transport.

  • serial_number (int) – The module serial_number to look for.

Returns:

The connection spec for the module whose serial number is

given in the args.

Return type:

Spec

brainstem.discover.getDownstreamDevices(list_length=128)[source]
Gets downstream device USB information for all Acroname hubs.
args:

list_length: The amount of memory to provide for the lower level C call.

Return:
Result: Result object, containing NO_ERROR and a tuple of DeviceNode’s

containing the detected downstream devices. - aErrParam: Passed in values are not valid. (NULL, size etc). - aErrMemory: No more room in the list - aErrNotFound: No Acroname devices were found.