Data acquisition package/toolbox in Julia or Python

Question

Are there any toolbox or package in Julia which is similar to the data acquisition toolbox of Matlab? In Python I encountered Pyserial. Are there more?

Answer 1

You can call pySerial directly from Julia via the PyCall.jl package.

To make life easier pySerial is easily available as SerialPorts.jl Julia package, so the setup should be straight forward. Please note that this package is not yet translated to Julia 1.0. However it installs (with warnings) under Julia 0.7.

Note that pySerial is using Java Communications API (JavaComm) so another option is to download JavaComm from Oracle and use it via JavaCall.jl API. This is easy if you have some basic knowledge of Java (requires reading and understanding Java docs).

From Julia you can also call directly C libraries. One such library is libserialport. It has been already repackaged for Julia as LibSerialPort.jl.