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prasimix:
Thanks for your feedback. Please note that EEZ Studio is even not in a "Beta" stage, we published what is done by reaching internally set first milestone (M1). A long journey is in front of us to make it not just attractive but also usable with many instruments. You are correctly noticed that what is now available and not listed as "generic instrument" need some extra work. We call it "instrument extension" as EEZ Studio already has everything included for making it. Currently we are storing there instrument identification info, picture, shortcuts and HTML help for supported/recognized SCPI commands. You can take a look by selecting File ...Open option and go to Instruments folder searching for file with .eez-project extension. For example, here is one of the pages that belongs to rigol_ds_mso_1000.eez-project file:



We are using internally developed Openoffice/Libreoffice extension (WebPublish, will be available soon on the GitHub) that convert .odt file to HTML in controlled manner. I spent some time to type in and bookmarking texts from Rigol's programming manuals. We are using special bookmark convention to easily process content of such HTML file. A collection of generated HTML files for mentioned "instrument extension" can be found used doc folder:



Unfortunately, a whole process is not documented yet, but my plan is to make a sort of "cookbook" how to create your own instrument extension.

The good thing is that EEZ Studio is now live on GitHub, so everyone is more then welcomed to participate in this moment at least with reporting errors found in M1, but also suggestions, wishes, etc. We'll try to add into our schedule what is reported and regarding your question about trace plotting I'd like to suggest you to open a new issue, and possibly attach there an graph example and we'll follow up with questions and solutions. We are working on the the M2 (Milestone 2) and progress and what is planned to be included can be tracked here.

In the meantime, we made a great progress in establishing USBTMC connection with Rigol scope. That is not so staightforward as Ethernet connection, but with a short readme it should be easily manageable for the most of people (hopefully still much easier then adding NI-VISA). Various content filtering is also added and it's possible to delete/purge/undelete any items from instrument history (with items counters!). We'd also like to add in the M2 a first group of "math" operations on acquired data.
Something what we possibly will need very soon (better then later) is making a session instrument independent or to promote existing session on certain instrument to such type of session. If such session type exists one could pick and choose results from multiple instruments, together with other external "items" (recorded video/audio/textual remarks, PDFs, images, datasheets, spreadsheets/tables, etc.). In that way, at the end, one can create a comprehensive lab report that can be easily converted in a job report for internal use or for end customer, for the publishing purpose, etc. That is in line with going toward modern ELN solution as mentioned in the first post.

prasimix:

--- Quote from: dpenev on June 20, 2018, 11:41:41 am ---I also decided to test what morris6 has done.
I hit an issue.

--- End quote ---

I need more input here: what script, script purpose, etc. That is obviously a bug, since EEZ Studio should exit gracefully in case of an error.

dpenev:
Hello,

The script is:
HCOP:SDUM:DATA:FORM BMP
HCOP:SDUM:DATA?

The instrument is Keysight 24461A
 
I guess something related with the png conversion?


prasimix:
Quite possible. Does it generate .png or .bmp as HCOP:SDUM:DATA:FORM BMP suggested?

dpenev:
I don't know this but note that it was working for morris6.
Have you changed anything since his version?
I am using Windows 10

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