Installation

From PyPI:

pip install mio

From git repository, using pip:

git clone https://github.com/Aharoni-Lab/mio
cd mio
pip install .

Or pdm:

git clone https://github.com/Aharoni-Lab/mio
cd mio
pdm install

Additional Dependencies

OpalKelly

mio.vendor.opalkelly - used for FPGA I/O

Linux

We package the OpalKelly FrontPanel SDK here, but it has an unadvertised dependency on some system level packages:

• liblua5.3-0

So eg. on debian/ubuntu you’ll need to:

apt install liblua5.3-0

Mac

No special installation should be required.

Windows

Windows Time Service (w32tm) may not provide sufficient accuracy for NTP sync checks. For NTP sync check support, install an NTP client. For example, Meinberg NTP worked well in our setup.

For the stream command, you’ll need to manually install the OpalKelly FrontPanel SDK.

The combination of Windows and Python 3.13 caused segmentation faults in our test environment. We recommend using Python 3.12 or earlier on Windows.