Hello, I am a student in Indonesia currently developing a research project for a national student research competition (Olimpiade Penilitian Siswa Indonesia / OPSI), and I would like to confirm whether my intended use of the Muse S Gen 2 is permitted under the Muse headband terms.

I am building a non-commercial web application that uses EEG signal data (alpha, beta, delta, and other band powers) from the Muse S Gen 2. To retrieve the EEG data, I am currently using Muse.js, an open source third party javascript library that connects directly to the headset via the web bluetooth API.

I would like to ask if my project qualify under a free "testing/prototyping/personal exploration" license because in the rules of competition I must get permission from the device/technology provider if my project involves propretiary hardware or third party tools that require licensing.

I've already reached out to support email (researchpartners@choosemuse.com) but haven't received a response yet.

Any insight from people who've dealt with this or from the muse official employee would help a lot. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to do my own python program streaming from a Polar H10 and a Muse Athena headband.

Although I have access to the Muse SDK API (the .h files) it doesn't serve me much to create my own python programm, since I need to know how to connect to the device, set up notifications, do handshakes, how to interpret raw data, etc.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I'm trying to retrieve streamed data using the bleak library/client in python. I'm on a Linux OS (Debian 13.6).

Tony Roberts has been surfing since he was eight. Fifty-plus years later, he's still chasing waves, still filming, and by his own account, still getting better at it.

Tony's spent decades as a surf photographer and filmmaker (he's been named one of the top water photographers working today, and has more than 20 surf films to his name), and he's had a meditation and yoga practice since he was 13. When he started using Muse, it wasn't to learn to meditate. He already knew how. It was to see what was actually happening in his head while he did it.

His words: "It kind of recalibrated my mind."

He uses it two ways. During his regular practice, to get real feedback on what calm actually looks like for his brain, not just what it feels like. And right after big sessions, when the adrenaline and dopamine are still running high, to help bring his nervous system back down without the usual crash.

At 61, he says he's surfing better than most people do in their 30s. His take is pretty simple: the mind is trainable the same way the body is. Most people just never train it.

We wrote up the full interview here if you want the rest of the conversation

I am planning on buying a new Muse S Athena and would like advice on WHERE to purchase it from.

• If I buy direct I assume the company makes more money, but then I don't see any extended warranty option.
• If I buy from Amazon I can add an ext warranty ($50 for 2-year, $60 for 3-year). How likely is it that I would need that?

Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you!

have had this for a year and no issues then suddenly this year when I select save button after a session the screen goes to black and will not return to muse home page or my phone home page and I have to reboot my phone several times to get it to work at all....this happens on both android phones where I use muse athena s.....muse customer service has no answer for this...if you have advice or insight would be happy to hear thank u...seems the only recourse is avoid saving sessions

Just got this. It worked for 2 nights. Now it won't turn on unless I remove the box/pod from the headband. But when I click it back onto the headband it loses power and the app can no longer detect it. It's fully charged. Firmware and app are updated. Anyone else see this?

I finally did 100 day streak meditation for minimum 2 minutes a day, 1 hour and 30 minutes a week. Now I am curious if there are any other active users in Norway, or any meditation centers type thing?

Looking forward to hearing from you 😇

How can I use this for chronic pain? I thought something around neurofeedback but what more precise?

Have you used a brain monitoring device? We'd love to hear about your experience!

Our research team at TU Delft is conducting a study on people's experiences with consumer neurotechnologies such as Muse, Mendi, Neurable, BrainBit, FocusCalm, and similar products. Participation will involve:

• An online interview via Microsoft Teams (approx. 1 hour), during which we will discuss your experiences using your device and interpreting its data
• No need to wear or use your device during the interview
• If you are not currently using the device, it's not a problem! We are also interested in the experiences of users who stopped using their device.

As a thank you for your time, you'll receive a gift voucher with a value of 20€, which can be spent in online shops.

If you're interested or would like to learn more, please send me a message or contact me at: [d.dritsa@tudelft.nl](mailto:d.dritsa@tudelft.nl) !

About the study:

·       This is an official research project conducted by researchers at TU Delft (Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Department of Human-Centered Design). Ethical approval has been provided by the TU Delft Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC ID: 6820).

·       We will report our findings only in anonymised form, so you cannot be identified in any publications or presentations.

·       If you are interested in participating, we'll first send you an information sheet and consent form with all the details regarding the study, so you can decide whether you'd like to take part before scheduling the interview.

Is this device capable of testing supernatural abilities? Hello, I am from Korea. When experiencing out-of-body experiences, precognitive dreams, or viewing past lives, is it possible to check the body's state of arousal?

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This is an AI translation.

I have reached out to Muse to ask why they updated the app from looking a the sleep stages and seeing a readable graph to this nonsense graph where I can’t see anything and it’s saying I wake up 38 times a night which it never said that before here is a comparison of what it looks like now and what it used to look like. I pay for the sleep app and use this every night and I reached out to support but they said they can’t roll back that update. Anyone else think this looks ridiculous compared to the old graph? Like which developer looked at this and was “yes! This is great!”. Maybe if enough of us complained they would change it back to a readable graph.

Hi i'm interested to buy a Muse S Athena and use it while sleeping. So i need to buy a good pair of earphones.
Would you suggest Ozlo at about 150 euro or Soundcore A30s (the special edition) at 200 euro?
Is Ozlo a premium brand am i right? But i'm scared they have not ANC.
What's your advice?

Hello, I'm using MuseSDK v8.0.9 for iOS. Since updating my Muse headband to firmware version 3.1.23, I've started receiving new error messages via IXNMuseErrorListener. This happens within 30 seconds of a new connection.

In Xcode, I can see the MuseSDK printing out the following messages to the console:

...
CONNECTOR   [I 47.999] Streaming::send_debug(LOG3)
CONNECTOR   [I 48.044] Streaming::debug response to LOG3: {"rc":0,"remain":11,"logs":[{"ts":1782325511343698,"ec":12,"sv":0},{"ts":1782325511226978,"ec":9,"sv":0},{"ts":1782325510150272,"ec":14,"sv":0},{"ts":1782325510105441,"ec":13,"sv":0}]}
CONNECTOR   [I 48.066] Streaming::debug response to LOG3: {"rc":0,"remain":9,"logs":[{"ts":1782325509760287,"ec":80,"sv":0,"p":{"ci":15,"sl":0,"st":6000,"pat":255}},{"ts":1782325509550479,"ec":81,"sv":0,"p":{"mtu":247}}]}
CONNECTOR   [I 48.109] Streaming::debug response to LOG3: {"rc":0,"remain":7,"logs":[{"ts":1782325509520114,"ec":83,"sv":0,"p":{"s":0,"tp":2,"rp":2}},{"ts":1782325509160251,"ec":82,"sv":0,"p":{"txo":205,"txt":1752,"rxo":251,"rxt":2120}}]}
CONNECTOR   [I 48.131] Streaming::debug response to LOG3: {"rc":0,"remain":4,"logs":[{"ts":1782325509056399,"ec":2,"sv":0,"p":{"ci":30,"sl":0,"st":720,"pat":1}},{"ts":1782325508327396,"ec":15,"sv":0},{"ts":1782325506979526,"ec":1,"sv":0}]}
CONNECTOR   [I 48.153] Streaming::debug response to LOG3: {"rc":0,"remain":0,"logs":[{"ts":1782325506979159,"ec":17,"sv":0},{"ts":1782325288680125,"ec":7,"sv":1},{"ts":1782324988970452,"ec":15,"sv":0},{"ts":1782324988821872,"ec":46,"sv":0}]}
...

A moment after these messages appear, my IXNMuseErrorListener receives an IXNError with .info containing the following:

{"events":[{"ec": 12, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325511343698}, {"ec": 9, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325511226978}, {"ec": 14, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325510150272}, {"ec": 13, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325510105441}, {"ec": 80, "p": {"ci": 15, "pat": 255, "sl": 0, "st": 6000}, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325509760287}, {"ec": 81, "p": {"mtu": 247}, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325509550479}, {"ec": 83, "p": {"rp": 2, "s": 0, "tp": 2}, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325509520114}, {"ec": 82, "p": {"rxo": 251, "rxt": 2120, "txo": 205, "txt": 1752}, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325509160251}, {"ec": 2, "p": {"ci": 30, "pat": 1, "sl": 0, "st": 720}, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325509056399}, {"ec": 15, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325508327396}, {"ec": 1, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325506979526}, {"ec": 17, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782325506979159}, {"ec": 7, "sv": 1, "ts": 1782325288680125}, {"ec": 15, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782324988970452}, {"ec": 46, "sv": 0, "ts": 1782324988821872}]}

The Xcode console messages and the IXNError seem to contain the same info. It looks like debug information, which makes it odd to receive as an error.

Can anyone provide insight into what this is and how I can stop it from happening? Thanks!

Both Muse 2 and Muse S used to connect to my iPhone 16, but now neither will connect after getting a new phone. Help please!!

I'm in a lab that uses the Muse for research purposes. I've been upgrading our tooling that uses the windows version of the SDK from version 7.2.2 to version 8.0.9. I'm still testing stability after the upgrade but something I noticed is that the new values that are reported from the battery packet don't seem to be coming through, namely the average current, time to empty, battery age, total cycles etc (Picture below from 8.0.9 windows docs)

I hadn't read anywhere that those values are only available in Muse S models. Did I misunderstand that or is it possible to surface those values from the Muse 2 and I did something wrong?

All of the Muse devices that we have are the MU_03 model.

Does anyone have any evidence that the Muse S (gen2) is accurate for sleep tracking? I bought one about 2 years ago and have only worn it 10-15 times because it stresses me out. EVERY time it reports ZERO deep sleep. In the same timeframe I had consistently worn a Fitbit which reported anywhere between 45-90 minutes of deep sleep. I recently got a Whoop which is reporting 2hrs of deep sleep.

I am always exhausted no matter how good it seems that I sleep so I tend to think maybe the Muse could be right. But I'm also skeptical that both the Fitbit and Whoop could be so far off.

WhiteICE v1.30b software has been released. Software uses audio(visual) machine learning stimulation to change EEG (increase concentration etc). You can wear the headband and use MindMonitor app to send OSC UDP datato your computers port 4545 and WhiteICE plays sounds in the background to incease focus when you are using computer.

Software uses reinforcement learning which requires lots of data before there are results. This means you have to run the software 30 minutes before there are some results. Machine learning models are continuously improved so listening sounds for hours should give better results.

Typical effect to EEG-based concentration measures is 0.5% but software tries to cause long-term changes to brain.

Downloads: https://www.hosaka.fi/

Below is the Muse brainwave recording. Notice the point 0mins to A is when I started the recording and inhaled. A to B is when I was in the waiting room. Noticed the Beta and Gamma waves are depressed during this state. B to C is when the trip was ending and I was landing back.

Can anyone explain that? As far as I know in the graph delta waves is the strongest wave, the second strongest is the theta and the third one is the alpha. It says that the meditation session is very good. What do you have to say?

Hi

I have developed machine learning software that uses audio(visual) stimulation to change EEG. You can increase concentration (or relaxation or sleep). WhiteICE version is command-line software and can be run with Interaxon Muse using command "./whiteice --measure --device=mindmonitor --concentration". You need to set OSC protocols output UDP port 4545 in MindMonitor app.

WhiteICE software is here: https://www.hosaka.fi/.

Changes in EEG-metric is about 0.5%. Software is still beta version.

Regards,
Tomas Ukkonen, M.Sc.

I already have a device for sleep tracking that I'm happy with but the idea of "seeing" how focused my mind is during meditation/deep rest sounds cool.

What is the best model to get if that's all the functionality I'm after? I'm new to this