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Offline SmokeyTopic starter

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Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« on: January 05, 2024, 12:43:34 am »
https://www.tek.com/en/products/keithley/keithley-control-software-bench-instruments/kickstart

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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?
 

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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2024, 11:23:33 am »
Better develop  in python or else, i think they killed the momentum ...

https://github.com/alson/python-ivi/tree/staging/ivi
 

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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2024, 11:00:47 am »
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.
 

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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2024, 09:46:42 pm »
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).
« Last Edit: January 06, 2024, 09:51:27 pm by Smokey »
 

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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2024, 05:15:36 am »
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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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2024, 10:51:47 am »
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?

https://www.tek.com/en/support/faqs/i-see-that-kickstartfl-base-is-going-away
 

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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2024, 02:26:25 pm »
Kickstart = kick you to start learning python
 
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Re: Keithley Kickstart Software..........
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2024, 04:08:08 am »
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Question :
I see that KICKSTARTFL-BASE is going away. Will the existing KICKSTARTFL-BASE license still work in KickStart version 2.4.0?

a. Yes.
b. However, by October 2021, existing KICKSTARTFL-BASE users will need to purchase KICKSTARTFL-SUITE-UP to use their Base licenses with KickStart software versions released after that date.

 


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