Cortex API
  • Getting Started
  • Connecting to the Cortex API
  • Overview of API flow
  • Authentication
    • getCortexInfo
    • getUserLogin
    • requestAccess
    • hasAccessRight
    • authorize
    • generateNewToken
    • getUserInformation
    • getLicenseInfo
  • Headsets
    • controlDevice
    • queryHeadsets
    • updateHeadset
    • updateHeadsetCustomInfo
    • syncWithHeadsetClock
    • Headset object
  • Sessions
    • createSession
    • updateSession
    • querySessions
    • Session object
  • Data Subscription
    • subscribe
    • unsubscribe
    • Data sample object
  • Records
    • createRecord
    • stopRecord
    • updateRecord
    • deleteRecord
    • exportRecord
    • queryRecords
    • getRecordInfos
    • configOptOut
    • requestToDownloadRecordData
    • Record object
  • Markers
    • injectMarker
    • updateMarker
    • Marker object
  • Subjects
    • createSubject
    • updateSubject
    • deleteSubjects
    • querySubjects
    • getDemographicAttributes
    • Subject object
  • BCI
    • queryProfile
    • getCurrentProfile
    • setupProfile
    • loadGuestProfile
    • getDetectionInfo
    • training
    • Readonly profile
  • Advanced BCI
    • getTrainedSignatureActions
    • getTrainingTime
    • facialExpressionSignatureType
    • facialExpressionThreshold
    • mentalCommandActiveAction
    • mentalCommandBrainMap
    • mentalCommandGetSkillRating
    • mentalCommandTrainingThreshold
    • mentalCommandActionSensitivity
  • Warning Objects
  • Error Codes
  • Troubleshooting Guide
  • Release Notes
  • cortexaccess tool
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Overview of API flow

PreviousConnecting to the Cortex APINextAuthentication

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There are a few steps to prepare before you can get the data streaming out from Cortex:

  1. First you have to login to the EMOTIV Launcher with your .

  2. Make sure that you are using the correct application ID, client ID and client secret that you generated from the Account dashboard on Emotiv website in your application ().

  3. Call the API from your app to Cortex, and accept via the EMOTIV Launcher.

  4. After access is granted, connect your EMOTIV brainwear headset via the USB dongle or Bluetooth.

  5. Call the API with "refresh" command to start the headset scanning.

  6. Call the API to list the available headsets.

  7. Call the API with "connect" command to connect to the desire headset.

  8. Call the API to get a Cortex token for subsequence requests.

  9. Call the API to open up a new session and be ready for BCI data streaming.

requestAccess
controlDevice
queryHeadsets
controlDevice
authorize
createSession
EmotivID
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