PoMiDAQ

View and record videos from UCLA Miniscopes

io.github.bothlab.pomidaq

PoMiDAQ is a recording software for UCLA Miniscopes for neuroscientific research. It provides an easy way to record videos from Miniscopes, create Z-stacks to give an overview of visible cells or tissue features and provides an online background subtraction feature to gain an initial insight into cellular calcium activity while data is recorded. Recorded data is encoded with the FFV1 codec by default, to allow for smaller, lossless video files that are safe to archive.

The software is designed to work with the latest OpenCV libraries and provides a shared library, so Miniscope recording features can easily be embedded into other programs and pipelines. PoMiDAQ will work with Miniscope V3, V4 and the Siminiscope hardware using the standard DAQ box v3.2.

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Screenshots

Recording a raw video of calcium activity while displaying the difference to the average background

Displaying the raw image data recorded from a GRIN lens in CA1 of a mouse hippocampus

Observed history

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Upstream releases

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0.6.110 Mar 2026

This release adds the following features:

Build for Windows using MSYS2
windows: Embed icon in the executable
windows: Autobuild an installer for the app
Add working Miniscope firmware to the repository
Build binaries for Ubuntu 26.04

This release fixes the following bugs:

Update image view widget with Syntalos version
Ensure libminiscope is included in Linux release tarballs

This release includes the following changes:

Update README and mention PPA
README: Add note on missing BNO info on newer Linux kernels
README: Add explicit Flatpak installation instructions
Add CITATION.cff
ci: Streamline build workflow, drop linux-release-binaries workflow

0.6.016 Mar 2025

This release adds the following features:

Port to Qt6
Migrate zstack acquisition jobs to QPromise

This release fixes the following bugs:

Resolve deprecation warning with newer FFmpeg
Use the older BNO query interface on Windows

This release includes the following change:

Update Debian packaging, allow PPA upload

0.5.218 Jun 2024

This release adds the following features:

Display progress when acquiring a z-stack
Add experimental 3D stack accumulation function
Display acquisition progress in main window, instead of progress window

This release fixes the following bugs:

Ensure correct framerate is set for AVI containers
Enable sync pulses / recording mode even if we aren't recording

This release includes the following change:

py: Explicitly set video filename, rather than implicitly

0.5.116 Aug 2023

This release adds the following features:

Update to more modern image rendering code from Syntalos
Add option to highlight image saturation
Allow building for OpenGL ES, making arm64 builds easier
Implement a device hard-reset feature for developers

This release fixes the following bug:

Clean up V4L buffers after OpenCV release for clean future device reconnect

This release includes the following changes:

ci: Build for Debian 12 by default
cmake: Stop using PythonInterp, use Python3 module instead in FindNumPy