EEGDEV-DATAFILE(5)

✨ EEGDEV-DATAFILE ✨ (section 5, bestie)

okay so this is the eegdev-datafile page from the EEGDDEV library manual — yes it's a manpage, yes we're making it cute, no we are not skipping a single detail 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

eegdev-datafile — the eegdev backend that reads your signals straight out of a biosignal data file 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the datafile plugin is what implements the backend for the eegdev library when your signal source is a biosignal data file. That's the whole vibe.

And the way this plugin ate? It supports all the file formats that the xdffileio library supports. Every single one. No cap 💅

🌈 CONFIGURATION 🌈

This plugin has options, and it's lowkey flexible about them. Here's the rule: if none of the configuration files and not the configuration string (peep egd_open(3)) say anything about an option, then the default value is what gets used. Periodt.

• path — this one tells the plugin the path to the datafile that should be used as a signal source. And the default value? It's "test.bdf". That's right bestie, "test.bdf" is the fallback. Don't come for me, that's just what it says ✨

💜 FILES 💜

• /etc/eegdev/eegdev.conf — the shared configuration file. Everyone shares it, it's giving communal ✨
• /etc/eegdev/datafile.conf — this is the configuration file that gets loaded when the datafile plugin is used. And important: the settings specified in here override the settings in the shared configuration file. Main character energy, fr fr 👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• egd_open(3)
• eegdev-options(5)

and that's the page!! 🦋 shoutout to EPFL, who wrote this in 2012, and to the EEGDEV library manual for housing it — mwah, iconic, go read the other pages too 💖🎀