EyeLink - Track

Standalone program to calibrate an EyeLink 1000 Plus system and to start the recording on the stimulation PC.

Install instruction

If installed with uv, psychopy, wxPython and pylink will correctly get fetched.

uv pip install git+https://github.com/fcbg-platforms/eyelink-track

Requirements

Requires python 3.10 and the pylink library.

python -m pip install --index-url=https://pypi.sr-support.com sr-research-pylink

On Linux, PsychoPy requires:

• APT libraries

sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev portaudio19-dev libasound2-dev libsdl2-2.0-0

• Elevated user privileges, e.g. via a psychopy group

sudo groupadd --force psychopy
sudo usermod -a -G psychopy $USER
sudo nano /etc/security/limits.d/99-psychopylimits.conf

    @psychopy   -  nice       -20
    @psychopy   -  rtprio     50
    @psychopy   -  memlock    unlimited

c.f. https://www.thegeekdiary.com/understanding-etc-security-limits-conf-file-to-set-ulimit/ for additional information on ulimit.

PsychoPy requires wxPython, which can be difficult to compile from source on linux. Wheels are available here: https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/