Muse S Headbands
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Can I save a Muse S session then open it in OpenBCI and analyze it? Is there a way to run Muse S through OpenBCI for a live session?
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Hi Bwins,
The OpenBCI GUI only supports OpenBCI hardware. It cannot interact with Muse devices.
William
Oh. Well, I did discover that you can run Muse data through the OpenBCI GUI. Which makes sense, being raw data as a CSV file. But I also thought OpenBCI was open source, meaning it could be modified - much in the way OpenBCI works with Emotiv. I figured someone would have made it work with Muse by now, which was the second part of my question. Opensource softwware + less expensive readings. Makes sense to me.
There are other packages for EEG analysis, not tied to hardware manufacturers. Such as EEGLAB, OpenViBE, MNE, NeuroPype, Neuromore, EDFBrowser, various Python libraries like Brainflow, etc. OpenBCI GUI cannot talk to Emotiv either.
https://docs.openbci.com/Software/CompatibleThirdPartySoftware/Matlab/
Hm... I'm sure OpenBCI does talk to Emotiv and to Muse - just takes some tinkering, probably with Python. This guy figured out a way to connect all popular EEG units.
https://www.robosoft.de/eegcenter/
Also this, https://brainflow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/SupportedBoards.html#muse-s-bled (if you read the "read the docs" section, Brainflow, which is what OpenBCI uses, I think, can talk to Muse.) Which makes sense because OpenBCI GUI is open sourced, which means somewhere, someone has connected OpenBCI GUI to Muse via some sort of plugin. Which was my question. I figured this forum would be useful to find that person and the plugin.
As a side note, since Muse and Brainflow as of version 2.6 talk through a bit plus the Bled112 dongle, all we need is a bit of code to connect OpenBCI GUI to that incoming stream. Until then, I guess I can save the data as a CSV file via Mind Monitor and then open the CSV file in OpenBCI GUI. Not live. But it seems to work.
Hey, the facts are that OpenBCI GUI is ONLY enabled to connect real-time to OpenBCI devices. It CANNOT talk real-time to Muse or Emotiv. YES you yourself can modify the source, go ahead. Brainflow DOES NOT support Emotiv, and some models of Emotiv are LOCKED to only work for those paying access to the raw EEG. Brainflow does support Muse. The GUI uses Brainflow. The GUI architecture for each different device (Cyton, Ganglion, Galea), is not done in a 'plugin' fashion so that new devices are easily added. It requires detailed code changes.
Your best bet for Muse support is to ask around on Muse forums. As I mentioned previously there are various EEG packages that are not so tightly tied to hardware vendors, as is OpenBCI GUI.