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Now I'm not sure if the problem is coming from RUU; I'm wondering if you have NI-VISA installed correctly. Have you used any other VISA software to communicate with the scope? Rigol's Ultra Sigma, MATLAB, LabVIEW, etc? I think you better test first that you can communicate with your scope - use Ultra Sigma to open a USB session and send *IDN? to the Rigol.
I think you better test first that you can communicate with your scope - use Ultra Sigma to open a USB session and send *IDN? to the Rigol.
I installed UltraSigma and tried it. It looks to work correctly (picture). I tried also RUU after UlraSigma installation. There is no change. It does not work.
Ahh... I know what the error with RigRead2 is. I mentioned in a previous post (which I think you didn't read) that these small test programs (RRM, RigRead, etc) are without the needed DLLs that come with RUU (if only I could read Finnish) - you must run RigRead2 in the same folder where you have RUU. Please test RigRead2 again from RUU folder. Thanks.
BTW, RUU won't work for you until I post a bug fix - that's why we have RigRead(2).
Sorry, you are right, I have not read all the earlier posts. RigRead and RigRead2 give both the same message, which is in the picture.
I heard similarly as marmad from Rigol NA regarding availability of IVI driver; i.e. it hasn't been released yet. But, Rigol suggested to me to try DS6000 series IVI driver, and that "I should be able to use most of the basic commands" from that driver.
Since I have the animated GIF option as a kind of compiled version of the screen images - I'd like to do the same for the CSV output. Does anyone know if you can make a database file that is in CSV format? So it could be opened in Access or another DB program?
Also, since I have the animated GIF option as a kind of compiled version of the screen images - I'd like to do the same for the CSV output. Does anyone know if you can make a database file that is in CSV format? So it could be opened in Access or another DB program?To what purpose? A relational database isn't really appropriate for this sort of data I don't think. Though most database engines I'm familiar with can import CSV fairly easily (Postgres, MySQL and Oracle all can).
Have just ordered my DS2072 thanks to this thread and particularly your posts marmad. Thanks for the info and software, I'm sure I will be satisfied. Waiting anxiously for a shipment notification so I can play .
To what purpose? A relational database isn't really appropriate for this sort of data I don't think. Though most database engines I'm familiar with can import CSV fairly easily (Postgres, MySQL and Oracle all can).
Well, I'm not sure - maybe we can discover a purpose later. But originally the idea was just as a possible solution to an organizational problem - if you want a voltage record of each waveform stored in a 100 different frames, the DS2000 doesn't allow you to save any files when in Record mode. But my software can pull out that voltage record from each frame and save it as a CSV file, but then you have a 100 (or whatever) separate CSV files. I thought it might be handier to have it stored in a single file, as a database of frames connected via their relationship to time. Anyway, just trying to think of more efficient ways to save recorded data for possible analysis or processing later.
Well, I'm not sure - maybe we can discover a purpose later. But originally the idea was just as a possible solution to an organizational problem - if you want a voltage record of each waveform stored in a 100 different frames, the DS2000 doesn't allow you to save any files when in Record mode. But my software can pull out that voltage record from each frame and save it as a CSV file, but then you have a 100 (or whatever) separate CSV files. I thought it might be handier to have it stored in a single file, as a database of frames connected via their relationship to time. Anyway, just trying to think of more efficient ways to save recorded data for possible analysis or processing later.I see what you mean, maybe something a little more elegant than a bunch of timestamped text files is required... Maybe a simple XML format? Unless you're planning on writing a 'waveform management system' as well though (and I'm sure many would be happy if you were!), this might be one to leave as an exercise to the reader.
BTW, in the interest of pushing the software I'm writing on more owners it takes the Rigol 15 seconds to write a PNG file to a USB stick - and then, of course, there's the time needed to transfer the stick to a computer and read the file. It takes the Rigol UltraVision Utilities 2.3 seconds (using USB) to transfer the data to the PC and save it
Works like a charm.
In addition to it being faster you also get the opportunity to enter a (hopefully meaningful) name for the file as you save it.
Thank you for the work you have put into the application - much appreciated.
Andrew
To what purpose? A relational database isn't really appropriate for this sort of data I don't think. Though most database engines I'm familiar with can import CSV fairly easily (Postgres, MySQL and Oracle all can).
Also, since I have the animated GIF option as a kind of compiled version of the screen images - I'd like to do the same for the CSV output. Does anyone know if you can make a database file that is in CSV format? So it could be opened in Access or another DB program?
OK, RUU v.1.5 starts now and looks to work correctly.
Let me know what you think of it - or if you have any feature suggestions.
I have problems with "Zoom Markerrs". If I click it I get a window as in the picture. If I click "Continue", nothing works there. Maybe I am doing something wrong?
Maybe you could change your windows regional settings so that decimal separator is comma "," to see if the problem shows up to speed up testing? I have found out that there exists plethora of software which also stumbles on this. I have no Rigol scope but just a thought.
That's likely the problem - as it was with an earlier version of RUU.
That is the problem. I changed decimal comma to decimal point in Windows, and there is no error message.
Marmad, sounds like you need to get your 'option strict' enabled or specified at top of your VB file. It will improve your life. Cheers.