OS (e.g. Win10): Windows10
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): v2024.1.5
Standard Standalone? (y/n) If not then what?: y
What are you trying to achieve?:
My advisor and I are attempting to run a builder psychopy study using EEG. We have an EEG system (Compumedics/Neuroscan Synamps 2, with 128-channel caps) and in the past we have used eprime2 to run EEG studies. Specifically, we used an old 32bit laptop that was able to use a Quatech SPP-100 1 Port PCMCIA to DB-25 Parallel Adapter to receive triggers.
I am attempting to “update” the lab by using psychopy and we have a newer computer that can’t accept that parallel adapter. Now we have an “6 ft USB to DB25 Parallel Printer Adapter Cable - M/F” which, not surprisingly, the new computer is recognizing it as a printer and not as a Ports LPT. This causes an issue where we don’t have a port address to tell psychopy to use.
Is there 1. a way to not have the USB be recognized as “universal serial bus controllers: USB printing support”? or 2. a different cord we can use to sent triggers?
What did you try to make it work?:
- searching through forums to see if there is any mention of other cords people use for their experiments
- trying to convert the USB Printer to be a Ports LPT
- trying to find a parallel port address of the USB
What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
- there are no errors when I run my task but there are also no triggers being sent and yes I have followed this discussion and have included all the files needed in my folder. Communicating via a Parallel Port — PsychoPy v2024.2.1
Any help would be amazing!