Last Updated on December 27, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
Several years ago, sentdex:
https://www.youtube.com/@sentdex/about
published a series of instructions with a 16 channel OpenBCI EEG setup. He connected the OpenBCI hardware to Python software:
These kind of instructions are very rare to find, we often see a setup which uses the OpenBCI hardware with the OpenBCI GUI, but we very rarely see a setup which consists of an OpenBCI setup connected to Python software which does EEG sensor data processing in real-time.
Python coders with the sills of a Harrison Kinsley are also very rare to find. The instruction of Harrison Kinsley with OpenBCI is excellent. It is a pity, that Harrison Kinsleys OpenBCI setup is not developed further. Now, we had the intuition, that Harrison Kinsleys OpenBCI setup can be the basis how to connect OpenBCI to InfluxDB. We do not know of an example of someone who connected OpenBCI to InfluxDB. We reviewed several options to connect OpenBCI to InfluxDB on our site. But the problem to connect OpenBCI to InfluxDB is similar as the problem to connect the Adafruit Pyloton bike computer to InfluxDB:
We could not find an easy example how to to this. But after we studied Paul Warren Eatons instruction how to manually inject .csv files into Home Assistant and InfluxDB:
we can imagine to solve the problem. As in the example of the Pyloton which we described here on this site, we can imagine that it is possible to stream EEG data from OpenBCI into InfluxDB in an easy way, following the above example of Paul Warren Eatons from Finnland. We do not know which pathway is the best to solve this problem. We have listed the connectivity options of OpenBCI on our site:
The example of Harrison Kinsley in which he connected OpenBCI to Python software for a real-time Python experiment is another possible pathway to connect OpenBCI to InfluxDB. The advantage of Harrison Kinsleys example is, that there is already an instruction with tree parts by Harrison Kinsleys which can be modified for this purpose.
As in the example of the Adafruit Pyloton, we can imagine to solve this problem ourselves. Unfortunately, we currently lack of time to make the project real. But we convinced that an instruction how to solve this problem for instance on YouTube could be very helpful to many other people who are looking for a solution for this problem.
Therefore we are looking of a Harrison Kinsley who connect the OpenBCI hardware to InfluxDB over Python or over another pathway, according to the instruction that we have suggested here. We are looking for a Harrison Kinsleys or another coder with good coding skills who solves this problem for fun and in it s spare time.