Retrieving pipette channel count

Hamilton (Venus)
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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if there is a way to update a variable in a method with the 1ml pipette channel count i.e. if there are 4x1ml channel pipettes installed on the robot then update the variable with 4.

I experimented a bit with the “HSLDevLib” library and “DevGetCfgValueWithKey” but didn’t get it to work.

Does anyone have experience with this?

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Hi,

An approach involves using the Channel pattern. A channel variable is represented as a string, such as “11100111”. If you need to deactivate specific channels, perhaps because they are not installed or are currently broken, you simply set the corresponding character to “0”.

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Hi Xianghua,

Thank you for your message. I am more interested in pulling the number of pipettes from the system’s configuration (or something similar) first and the do something like this with the variable that has been retrieved.

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Hi MSMDG,

You can use the HSL Extensions library for this:

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Hi Kees,

Thank you for this. :+1: