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PATHWAVE BenchVue License - included with your purchase?
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coromonadalix:
good point there

every companies have their quirks,  having LXI certified instruments means you have some base to work with

knowing  scpi commands for each and or using Ni / Visa  over lan or usb or gpib (some serially interfaced meters do accept almost the same commands)

will help more putting tests rigs together 


but alas  it does not means 100%  of all the different brands or even the same brand ( old and new) may or will play nice together
robint:
WOW guys
Im not the only one who is KS BV intolerant :-DD
FWIW I dont want to spend hours/day messing with setting up obscure programs to do my data logging work. I dont have a junior nerd around to deal with that schwepps.
I had to move my BV pc and restart is on my KS DMM, another half hour faff to get it talking (as it was before - didnt remember its setting cos it was switched off in the move - what a faff - and the insult is that it must be connected to internet to discover the USB DMM even though its a standalone app. I quickly go airplane mode once DMM connected BTW).

BTW  Some 5 years ago I bought a couple of slab type logging DMMs from Hantek 365C (was £55ea)  4dig V,I,ohms ac/dc. 9000 samples 0.3-100s per  ie I get 10 days max.  BUT the graphical GUI only works on Win XP.  I ve got a couple of Acer 10" netbooks 20 yrs old still doing a great job.  Bit of a faff  as you save csv data and squirt into Excel manually etc.  BUT IT WORKS , no drama, hissy fits like BV :-DD

Anyone else used Hantek :-//
HighVoltage:
There are plenty of threads here on the forum, in regards to BenchVue

Many years ago, I was one of the greatest fans for BV and said so.
I even had BV installed at some customers locations.
But the problems got larger and larger over time, that it did not make sense to use it anymore.

If you only want logging from a Keysight DMM, use the old Agilent logging software (Before it was called BV) and it will work perfectly without any license required and has unlimited logging capabilities.

Keysight had the opportunity to own the market with a good instrument software package.
But somehow they screwed it up in the worse possible way.

Wolfgang:
Today BenchVue just sucks, for  a lot of reasons:

- buggy
- Keysight only. Support for other stuff is absolutely rudimentary and useless
- Huge bloatware. 90% of the code went into a license manager and not real functionality
- Erratic license philosophy. I remember when even simple loggin was not free, then they keep
changing their license schemes every half a year just driving users crazy
- Python scripting does a lot more than BV can provide, its free and also works in hybrid (not just Kerysight) environments

The whole thing is a huge intellectual underachievement, IMHO. Just stay away from it. Some backstory here:
https://toolguyd.com/keysight-benchvue-is-a-great-example-of-an-unfavorable-approach-to-hardware-supporting-software/
robint:
Amazing how a big Corp like KS can lets its corporate clowns screw it all up for them so badly :-DD
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