navigate.model.device_startup_functions.start_device

navigate.model.device_startup_functions.start_device(microscope_name: str, configuration: Dict[str, Any], device_category: str, device_id: int = 0, is_synthetic: bool = False, daq_connection: Optional[Any] = None, plugin_devices: Optional[Dict] = None) → Any

Starts a device.

Parameters:

• microscope_name (str) – Name of microscope in configuration

• configuration (Dict[str, Any]) – Global configuration of the microscope

• device_category (str) – Type of device to connect to, such as stage, camera, filter_wheel, etc.

• device_id (int) – Index of device in the configuration dictionary. Default is 0.

• is_synthetic (bool) – Run synthetic version of hardware. Default is False.

• plugin_devices (Optional[Dict]) – Dictionary of plugin devices. Default is None.

Returns:

device – Device class.

Return type:

Any