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Rigol DS1000Z series buglist continued (latest: 00.04.04.04.03, 2019-05-30)
RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: Karel on October 29, 2017, 04:08:51 pm ---
--- Quote ---In 2000, the VXIplug&play Alliance added support for LAN-based instruments to its VISA specifications.
Two popular methods of instrument control via Ethernet were adopted by VISA:
VXI-113 and “direct” TCP socket communication
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Thank you for pointing to that, I'll further look into it.
TBH, I'm still confused about the precise requirements and the relationship between different specification protocols like LXI, VXI, VISA, SCPI and so on.
--- Quote from: lundmar on October 29, 2017, 04:37:33 pm ---I hope some people in this forum might contribute...
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I'm actually working on pushing lxi-tools and liblxi into the most popular GNU/Linux distributions. It is currently being packaged for Fedora/RHEL and soon I hope Debian/Ubuntu packages
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Yep, I would like to contribute, but most of all I would like to see a generic implementation that does not require to install a few GB of closed source drivers, like e.g. NI-VISA for Windows does now. All the best wishes with that. It's pretty lame that a lot of people are wasting their time to implement their own software for sending SCPI commands (including myself, which I'm not a programmer), instead of just using some open source established library.
Regarding my personal hassle with the installation, I'm glad that I made the mistake of starting from the github repo, because that led me to new insights about building from sources. ^-^
Thank you for all the other clarifications as well, it all makes more sense now.
I noticed that you opened a topic about lxi-tools and liblxi: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/open-source-lxi-tools-and-liblxi-v1-0-released-for-gnulinux/
Since other questions related to lxi-tools might become offtopic here, would the above link be the right place for further eevblog talks about lxi-tools and liblxi?
lundmar:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on October 29, 2017, 06:11:08 pm ---Yep, I would like to contribute, but most of all I would like to see a generic implementation that does not require to install a few GB of closed source drivers, like e.g. NI-VISA for Windows does now. All the best wishes with that. It's pretty lame that a lot of people are wasting their time to implement their own software for sending SCPI commands (including myself, which I'm not a programmer), instead of just using some open source established library.
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Yes, and installing GBs of data just to communicate with your instruments seems even more ridiculous as the lxi-tool and liblxi is only about 30k in total ;)
I also find it silly that standardizing organizations like the LXI consortium do not provide open source tools that implements their open standards. I guess it takes developers like me to step up and do the work if we want better tools. sigh.
By the way, there are various ways to contribute to a open source project like lxi-tools. I'll be happy to write the screenshot plugin for any instrument people might have but I need their help to test it.
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on October 29, 2017, 06:11:08 pm ---Regarding my personal hassle with the installation, I'm glad that I made the mistake of starting from the github repo, because that led me to new insights about building from sources. ^-^
Thank you for all the other clarifications as well, it all makes more sense now.
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No problem. Learning new stuff is often fun.
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on October 29, 2017, 06:11:08 pm ---I noticed that you opened a topic about lxi-tools and liblxi: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/open-source-lxi-tools-and-liblxi-v1-0-released-for-gnulinux/
Since other questions related to lxi-tools might become offtopic here, would the above link be the right place for further eevblog talks about lxi-tools and liblxi?
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Yes, besides the github issue tracker, https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/open-source-lxi-tools-and-liblxi-v1-0-released-for-gnulinux/ is a good place to discuss lxi-tools.
Also, just to help clarify. LXI (LXI Core etc.) is simply the standard that dictates that LXI certified instruments are required to communicate SCPI commands using communication protocols like RAW/TCP, VXI11/TCP, and HiSlip/TCP.
TinkeringSteve:
I just installed the lates firmware on mine, thinking, they probably got most of the kinks out of there.
Well. I just wanted to try the FFT function, played around with the options, and when I set
Mode to "Memory", the thing froze, none of the controls (e.g. channel buttons) worked, had to reset.
Can someone else confirm this?
(could have had a bad download, who knows... Although they hopefully do CRC or so on those files...)
frozenfrogz:
No problems using FFT in memory mode.
Does your scope freeze every time / is it reproducible?
If it is persistent: Please try re-uploading the firmware as you already mentioned and if the error still remains, please share the extended system info for reference.
Karel:
Try resetting the scope: switch it off and then on again and press repeatedly the 5th grey button on the left.
The language will change to chinese but that's easily fixed in the menu at the left.
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