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TomKatt:
The SDS800X HD series doesn't offer the WiFi dongle (yet), which is why I asked.  I downloaded the NI-VISA software and will either use that over USB or just set my scope up downstairs near my router to perform the 'upgrade' tweaks.  The NI-VISA worked fine for my old SDS1104X-E, but when I didn't see the NI driver listed on the Siglent support page I figured I'd ask.

2N3055:

--- Quote from: ebastler on June 05, 2024, 04:10:32 pm ---Thank you for taking the time for a comprehensive reponse, 2N3055. Much appreciated.

Yes, there may be a component of "siding with the underdog" at times -- after feeling like the odd one out myself in some earlier Siglent discussions, up against that closely knit group of Siglent defenders. I agree with your criticism of many aspects of eTobey's early bug reports, and have asked him for more detail and diligence and for a more measured approach more than once. But again, I also think that he has found an impressive number of real issues in a short time, and has not gotten credit for that.

If you re-read his (fewer) posts from the last couple of weeks, you may find that he has toned down his approach and become more factual. In parallel, I feel like your reactions to him have become louder recently, to be honest. Which I can understand -- having just decribed in the prior posts how repeated exposure to certain behaviours has probably made me more irritable too...

You mentioned "submitting a ticket to Siglent" as an alternative. I think that it is a good approach to first validate a potential issue by asking others in the forum about it. But if one wanted to submit a ticket directly to Siglent, how would one go about it? A ticket system accessible to a closed group of beta testers only was mentioned here once -- is there another one which is available to the general public?

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I gave him a chance.
He might be more polite to you (because the sees you as an "ally" at this time) but he is still same to me.
So I reverted to my original opinion. And attitude to him.
Like I said, he found some problems, that would be found anyways , and some were already in the works in Siglent by the time. Without going too much into details, in the end he found 4-5 issues that were original. Compare that with the amount of work you personally had to put in to "heard him in" to actually extract that information. And few others. And amount of posts and ohhh the draaamaaa....
S/N ratio is horrifying and behaviour histrionic. And I don't like that. Simple as that.

"submitting a ticket to Siglent"  is a phrase. Sorry for being imprecise. You report a problem, it gets confirmed, and Siglent creates internal ticket for it. I shortened the sentence a bit.  Basically you report, ticket ensues from it.
Simply reporting to Siglent support is what it is.

But reporting it here is just fine too. But like normal people do. I won't repeat here how. Several people (including you and other "Non Siglentians") explained it dozens of times. And no stupid TikTok titles and text.
Then some of the users of same scope and/or beta guys confirm it or not. If not further investigation might be needed.
Once problem is confirmed and Siglent can reproduce it process goes on.
Many times Tautech reports it to Siglent, for instance..
But you have to be able to reproduce problem to be able to fix it.

I only posted this because there were questions open.
I would very much like to get back to discussing scope topics if this is OK.

2N3055:

--- Quote from: TomKatt on June 05, 2024, 05:29:31 pm ---The SDS800X HD series doesn't offer the WiFi dongle (yet), which is why I asked.  I downloaded the NI-VISA software and will either use that over USB or just set my scope up downstairs near my router to perform the 'upgrade' tweaks.  The NI-VISA worked fine for my old SDS1104X-E, but when I didn't see the NI driver listed on the Siglent support page I figured I'd ask.

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Our friend Tautech is rooting hard for WiFi dongle. But ultimately it will be Siglents decision.
I personally don't like the idea of WiFI dongle spraying all kinds of RF while measuring..
SD800xHD has more BW and ADC with much more BW than SDS1000X-E.
If WiFi didn't bother older brother, it doesn't have to be that safe for 800xHD....
External mini router is safer bet in my opinion, at least you can move it left and right to minimize influence if you observe some...
TomKatt:

--- Quote from: 2N3055 on June 05, 2024, 05:42:26 pm ---Our friend Tautech is rooting hard for WiFi dongle. But ultimately it will be Siglents decision.

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I hope he roots hard for the Data Logger as well !!!  I personally found that quite useful on the SDS1104X-E, as I do not own a multimeter interface. 

Hopefully these features are missing because Siglent was trying to get the new scopes out on the shelves.
2N3055:

--- Quote from: TomKatt on June 05, 2024, 05:57:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on June 05, 2024, 05:42:26 pm ---Our friend Tautech is rooting hard for WiFi dongle. But ultimately it will be Siglents decision.

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I hope he roots hard for the Data Logger as well !!!  I personally found that quite useful on the SDS1104X-E, as I do not own a multimeter interface. 

Hopefully these features are missing because Siglent was trying to get the new scopes out on the shelves.

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Data logger is not part of touchscope series. Will they add it, I honestly don't know.
But I understand it is useful to some people.
They have it on new series of handheld portable scopes though.
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