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Quickstart

Get galois-edge running on your machine and controlling instruments in under 5 minutes. The daemon is a single self-contained binary — no Python runtime, no Docker, no dependencies.

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • Linux (x86_64 or arm64) or Windows 10/11
  • At least one instrument connected via USB, GPIB, LAN, or Serial

Step 1 — Install

Section titled “Step 1 — Install”
Terminal window
curl -fsSL https://get.galoislabs.ai | sh

The installer places galois-edge in /usr/local/bin and registers a systemd service. Supports x86_64 and arm64 (including Raspberry Pi).

Step 2 — Start the daemon

Section titled “Step 2 — Start the daemon”
Terminal window
galois-edge start

The daemon auto-discovers connected instruments and prints what it found:

galois-edge v0.9.4 starting...
  Scanning GPIB bus...    found Keithley 2400 at GPIB::24
  Scanning USB...         found Keysight 34461A at USB0::...
  gRPC API listening on   :50051
  WebSocket API on        :8765
  Ready.

Step 3 — Run your first measurement

Section titled “Step 3 — Run your first measurement”

Install the PyVISA backend:

Terminal window
pip install pyvisa-galois

Then use it just like standard PyVISA — one line changes:

import pyvisa


rm = pyvisa.ResourceManager("@galois")  # swap in the galois backend


# List all connected instruments
print(rm.list_resources())
# ('GPIB::24', 'USB0::2391::...')


# Open an instrument and take a reading
dmm = rm.open_resource("USB0::2391::...")
print(dmm.query("*IDN?"))
print(dmm.query("MEAS:VOLT:DC?"))

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”