Open Delmic Microscope Software

• Linux (tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 x86 32-bits and 64-bits)
• Python (v3.5+)
• Special (forked) version of Pyro4 from Delmic

Note: the viewer part is also tested to run on Windows (7 and 10).

For the complete list of dependencies, see the file requirements.txt.

See the doc/INSTALL.txt document for the complete installation procedure.

Launch the "Odemis" program, or type on a terminal: odemis-start Eventually the GUI (Graphical User Interface) will appear. As an argument it can take the name of the microscope file corresponding to the back-end.

It is not usually necessary, but if you want, to fully stop odemis (GUI and back-end), type: odemis-stop

To run just the viewer, you can type: odemis-gui --standalone

odemisd is the command line interface to start and manage the Odemis backend. It should be started first.

Run as odemisd ..., with ... replaced by the correct arguments. For all the possible commands see: odemisd --help

For example: odemisd --daemonize --log-level=2 src/odemis/odemisd/test/optical-sim.odm.yaml

To use the command line interface use: odemis-cli --help

To see the list of components: odemis-cli --list

For example, to turn on the forth source of the "light" component, type: odemis-cli --set-attr light power "0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.2"

For example, to move the Y axis of the "stage" component by 100µm, type: odemis-cli --move stage y 100

GPLv2, see the LICENSE.txt file for the complete license.

For information on how to extend the software, see the developer documentation. It must be first compiled, with:

cd doc/develop/
make html
# or
make latexpdf

Then it can be opened with: firefox _build/html/index.html or evince _build/latex/odemis-develop.pdf

To test the software, there are several unit-test classes in each directory (in their test/ sub-directory). There are also a few example microscope configuration file in the install/linux/usr/share/odemis/.

To run all the tests, you can call util/runtests.sh.