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PolhemusConnection

Namespace: UTILSLIB  ·  Library: Utilities Library

#include <utils/polhemus_connection.h>

class UTILSLIB::PolhemusConnection

Polhemus digitizer connection (mock + serial-port backends).

Inheritance​

Public Methods​

PolhemusConnection(parent)​

~PolhemusConnection()​

open(portName, cfg)​

Open the connection.

Parameters:

  • portName : const QString & Empty → mock backend. Non-empty → hardware backend.

  • cfg : const PolhemusSerialConfig & Serial transport configuration; ignored by the mock backend.

close()​

Close the active connection.

Safe to call when already closed.

isConnected()​

backendName()​

Static Methods​

availablePorts()​

Enumerate every serial port currently visible to the OS.

Convenience wrapper around QSerialPortInfo::availablePorts that returns just the system port names (e.g. /dev/cu.usbserial-AB0, COM3) so callers can populate a combo box without pulling in QSerialPortInfo themselves.

autoDetectPortName()​

Best-effort auto-detection of an attached Fastrak/FastSCAN.

Polhemus Fastrak/FastSCAN units ship with an FTDI USB-serial bridge (vendor id 0x0F44 for newer Polhemus-branded units, 0x0403 for the generic FTDI chip used in older units). This scan returns the first matching port name, or an empty string if no candidate is found.

Authors of this file​