mm-test-adapters

This builds device adapters commonly used for testing and development of mmCoreAndDevices (micro-manager).

• DemoCamera
• Utilities
• SequenceTester
• NotificationTester

Build

# update submodules, and apply meson-build patches
uv run make submodule

# build
uv run make

note, the makefile also works on Windows if you have git for windows.

Usage on CI

To use these on CI see https://github.com/pymmcore-plus/setup-mm-test-adapters

- name: Install MM test adapters
  uses: pymmcore-plus/setup-mm-test-adapters@main
  with:
    # all inputs are optional
    version: latest  # or a specific YYYYMMDD version
    destination: ./mm-test-adapters

Usage locally

Download the release you would like to use, then place it wherever Micro-Manager is looking for device adapters. To have them found by pymmcore-plus, place them in the default pymmcore-plus install location, named Micro-Manager-YYYYMMDD

• Windows: $LOCALAPPDATA/pymmcore-plus/pymmcore-plus/mm/Micro-Manager-YYYYMMDD
• macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/pymmcore-plus/mm/Micro-Manager-YYYYMMDD
• Linux: $HOME/.local/share/pymmcore-plus/mm/Micro-Manager-YYYYMMDD

Tip

On macOS, you will need to give permissions to allow the shared libraries to run:

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Application\ Support/pymmcore-plus/mm/Micro-Manager-*