Greetings.
I picked up my first oscilloscope this weekend:
Agilent 54622D (specs and description)I see there is (was?) software available to interface this with a PC using an RS-232 serial cable. I have a serial to USB cable that I've used for other applications without incident. I hooked it up and tried to find the needed software.
It's called "Intuilink". I was able to find a copy, provided by the Keysight company (did they buy Agilent?):
Here is the page for the software I grabbed.While 3.1 is the newest version, I couldn't get it to run the installer on my Win10 machine. The 1.1 version did run and I see the main screen. When I try to connect to the scope, I'm greeted with the following two screens:
This one expecting a connection through GPIB::7
And this when I go to search for an instrument.
I understand that the GPIB interface is an optional addon for this unit which I don't have. I thought this software would allow me to use RS-232 but I don't have an option to change the interface.
There was mention that I needed to download Agilent IO Libraries. I could find Keysight IO libraries (actually, I was redirected there) and was able to install "IO Control".
I could get this far and got that program to apparently recognize my scope.
Here is a picture of that.
I am not able to send or read any commands from the unit with the drop down list of commands I can apparently send. I used the alias GPB::7 juuuust incase that made a difference. It did not.
So.. I'm at a standstill. Would anyone here have any insight? My other option is to grab a USB floppy drive to transfer BMPs of the scope screen. No, I don't -need- any of this but it would be kinda fun.
Thank you for taking a look!