How to extract the saturation value? about python-seabreeze HOT 5 CLOSED

possible for all spectrometers with version 1.0.0 🎉

In [1]: from seabreeze.spectrometers import Spectrometer                                                 
In [2]: spec = Spectrometer.from_first_available()                                                       
In [3]: spec.max_intensity                                                                               
Out[3]: 65535.0

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short answer:

You shouldn't, but when using the pyseabreeze backend (it's not possible using the cseabreeze backend):

spec._dev.interface._MAX_PIXEL_VALUE

long answer:

These values are hardcoded in the seabreeze library (and therefore the cseabreeze backend) and model specific. pyseabreeze uses the same model specific values. When you know your USB product_Id, you know the max_pixel_value. Because of this you do not need to query this during runtime.
python-seabreeze returns spectra normalized to 1. (If it doesn't, consider it a bug.)

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"python-seabreeze returns spectra normalized to 1" => fantastic!
Thanks a lot!

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So the whole reasoning behind this issue is the need to know if something got saturated or not. I'm plotting the spectra and want to put a limit to the y-axis. This way a user will know if the integration time is too large. We have a couple of different specs in our lab (and might get others in the future), and I'd like it to work dynamically with "any" spectrometer.
spec._dev.interface._MAX_PIXEL_VALUE works great (for any Julia users, the equivalent command is spec[:_dev][:interface][:_MAX_PIXEL_VALUE]), but yea, if you meant for the spectra to come out scaled to one, they still don't.

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Small update:

As soon as this gets fully merged, I'll add support for normalizing all spectra to the maximum intensity value, independent of the backend.

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