DAQiFi MCP Server

Discover, configure and read DAQiFi Nyquist data-acquisition hardware from an AI agent

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Published as Daqifi.Mcp on nuget. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

8 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 5.

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mcp: discover_devices clamps the timeout to a 250 ms floor, but serial identify takes ~830 ms — any short timeout silently returns no devices

DaqifiAgent.DiscoverAsync clamps the caller's timeout with Math.Clamp(timeoutMs, 250, 30_000). On real hardware the serial identify handshake takes ~830 ms, so every value in the lower two thirds of that advertised range — including the floor itself — returns an empty list, silently, and is indistinguishable from "no device is plugged in".

Found by bench-validating Daqifi.Mcp end-to-end against a real Nyquist (fw 3.7.2) over USB CDC, with the server built from origin/main…

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

CoreDeviceAdapter needs improvements for true drop-in replacement capability

Summary

The current CoreDeviceAdapter (v0.4.1) is not ready for production use as a drop-in replacement for existing MessageProducer/MessageConsumer implementations. During integration testing with a real-world desktop application, we discovered critical functionality gaps that prevent successful migration.

Issues Discovered

1. Message Format Incompatibility

Problem: CoreDeviceAdapter's MessageConsumer provides IInboundMessage<object> events, but existing applications expect…

Read the thread · 2025-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

feat(mcp): a stale Daqifi.Mcp install is silently missing the data path — surface version and staleness

Why

On 2026-09-07 a developer machine here had Daqifi.Mcp 0.28.0 installed while 1.7.0 was published — nine releases of drift, with nothing anywhere signalling it.

That is not cosmetic. 0.28.0 predates #524 ("an agent can read a measurement, not just configure one"), so it exposes 10 tools instead of 25, with no read_channel_values and no capture_samples. An agent driving that install can discover a device, connect, configure channels and start SD logging — but **cannot…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

feat(mcp): publish Daqifi.Mcp to the MCP registry — the server exists but cannot be found

Why

Independent developers are hand-building MCP servers for bench instruments, because no instrument vendor ships one:

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

feat(mcp): live-data tools — an agent can configure everything and measure nothing

Type: Feature (MCP + Core API) Priority: High

What

The MCP server's 15 tools include no way to read a measurement. An agent can discover, connect, configure channels, drive DIO/PWM, set the sample rate, and start SD logging — but can never answer "what is the voltage on AI0?". grep StreamSamplesAsync|SampleReceived|LiveSample src/Daqifi.Mcp/ returns zero hits; the MCP README states it: "Data does not stream back to the agent in this version."

Core already has the entire…

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

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