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| Smokey:
https://www.tek.com/en/products/keithley/keithley-control-software-bench-instruments/kickstart It sure looks nice to be able to drive some of this equipment with an off the shelf piece of software, but damn is it expensive. I'm not super excited about having yet another piece of software on subscription either. Is Kickstart worth it? Also, it sounds like at least the basic functionality was free in previous versions. Is that true? If so, does anyone have a link to the installer for whatever the last free version was? |
| coromonadalix:
Better develop in python or else, i think they killed the momentum ... https://github.com/alson/python-ivi/tree/staging/ivi |
| jan28:
And if you want more visual development for controling one or more instruments: EEZ Studio using dashboards and flow (https://www.envox.eu/studio/studio-introduction/). It's open source. |
| Smokey:
I do use python for everything up to now. It's just a little frustrating that none of the open source projects have very complete SCPI command coverage of the features for some of the less common instruments, like the Keithley 2700 DMM/Scanner. For example, nothing I've found has implemented the command to check the EEPROM relay closure count on the cards. I would have expected that to be straightforward, but just issuing the command times out so there must be some setup sequence I'm missing. It would be nice to just have that basic functionality working out of the box with something like the vendor supplied software (Kickstart in this case). |
| Smokey:
Can anyone verify the idea that at some point at least a basic version of Keithley Kickstart was free? If so, when did that stop? |
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