This page describes my software setup to communicate with the Muse brain-sensing headband.

I am running the Muse software on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).

Base software environment:

• Mac OS Mojave (10.14.3)
• Default installation of Python 2.7 will work
• Python 3.7 is preferred

• XCode Command Line Tools
• Homebrew¹⁾

Open a terminal (e.g., iTerm) to run these commands. Create a directory, e.g., muse, and cd into it.

$ mkdir muse
$ cd muse

$ virtualenv -p python2 py2
$ source py2/bin/activate

$ python3 -m venv py3
$ source py3/bin/activate

When done working with muse, either close the terminal window, or deactivate the virtual environment with…

$ deactivate

Muse software is Muse LSL.

$ pip install muselsl

Plug in the Bluetooth USB (BLED112) dongle and turn on your Muse headband before launching muselsl.

$ muselsl stream

Open another terminal window, switch to the install directory, and run the visualizer:

$ cd muse
$ muselsl view -v 2

If some packages show up as missing when installing muselsl, install them manually:

$ pip install nose coverage

If an old version of a package (e.g., scipy) was installed using (the old) distutils, the new version might have problems uninstalling it. In that case, use the –ignore-installed option:

$ pip install --ignore-installed scipy

If when installing scipy, it complains that matplotlib is not installed, then install it directly:

$ pip install matplotlib

If some packages cannot be installed in the virtual environment (or in the system environment), use –user to install them locally (in the user's ~/Library folder):

$ pip install muselsl --user

* Installing Python 3 on Mac OS X from The Hitcher's Guide to Python