Installation and runtime requirements
Connect the MiniPIX-D08-W0313 over USB without touching the sensor; handle the protective cover carefully. The manufacturer’s Quick Start Guide names Drivers/setup.exe for Windows, Drivers/D2xxHelper_v2.0.0.pkg for macOS, and Pixet/Windows/setup.exe for PIXet Pro on Windows. These are distribution filenames from that edition of the guide, not a guarantee about current packages.
The supplied Python controller assumes a Windows PIXet Python SDK at C:\opt\ese774\modules\API_PIXet_Pro_1.8.3_Windows_x86_64. It modifies PATH, calls site.addsitedir(), and only then imports pypixet. Source imports additionally require numpy, h5py, and tifffile. The Python ABI and DLL architecture must match the distributed SDK.
Installing the PIXet Pro GUI and loading the Python SDK are separate checks. First verify detection in the manufacturer’s GUI, then check the logged device information from connect(). To use the controller without source changes, the hard-coded SDK path must match the installation.
Sources: Quick Start Guide p. 2; PIXet Pro User’s Manual pp. 4–5; supplied pixet_ctrl.py module header.