pyrtc.hardware.micromanager_camera

Camera adapters on Micro-Manager via pymmcore-plus.

pymmcore-plus drives Micro-Manager’s device layer from Python, and with it any camera Micro-Manager supports (Andor, Hamamatsu, PCO, Photometrics, many machine-vision cameras). Install with pip install pyrtcao[micromanager] plus a Micro-Manager installation (mmcore install fetches one). Then describe the hardware in a Micro-Manager .cfg file.

Config keys, on top of the usual WFS or science-camera ones:

mm_config

Micro-Manager system configuration (.cfg) to load.

mm_path

Micro-Manager installation directory. Default: pymmcore-plus’s find_micromanager().

camera

Camera device label, if the configuration has more than one camera.

exposure (ms), binning, ROI (width, height, left, top)

Applied through the core.

properties

{device: {property: value}} for anything else (gain, readout mode, cooling, …), applied in order.

frame_timeout

Seconds to wait for a frame (default 1.0).

Frames stream from continuous sequence acquisition. Each expose returns the newest frame and drops older ones, so the loop always sees the latest exposure. Micro-Manager images are (height, width), the shape of pyrtc’s image streams ([y, x], #162), so they are published as they come. (pyrtc 1.x transposed them; calibrations saved then need legacy_calibration: xy.)

Classes

MicroManagerScienceCamera(conf)	Science camera on any Micro-Manager camera device.
MicroManagerWFS(conf)	Wavefront-sensor camera on any Micro-Manager camera device.