Can anyone help me with Siglent USBTMC on Windows 10?? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: rwgast_lowlevellogicdesin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2020, 08:17:00 pm
content: So I have an older 25mhz Siglent 1022DL, which I tried to install USBTMC years ago on Windows 7, I never figured it out and just gave up as it wasn't very important to me at the time. I recently purchased an SDS1104x-e scope and a SDG1032x-e AWF, and am planning to purchase a SDM3045x in the next month. I have successfully "upgraded" the scope to the 1204x-e (via lan) with all the options and am able to control the SDG1032x with it, along with using the wifi server and the SLA1016 logic probe. The SDG1032x has also been "upgraded" to an SDG1064x via lan connection. The point being is im not dumb when it comes to getting this stuff set up usually, but the documentation on getting these NI drivers is really confusing and I know nothing about the NI eco-system. I would like to write some software to automate impeadence/LCR measurements along with controlling some cheap RF gens via the scope, and when i buy the bench meter id obviously like to add some automation to that...Anyways I've downloaded and installed EasyScopeX, and EasyWaveX, I just need to get the NI drivers installed to use them. I readthis page at siglent, How to install the USBTMC driverand I also readVerification of a working remote communications connection using NI – MAX. Neither of these articles helped me. I've literally built Android Kernels and Set up Embedded Dev Environments in less time than i have spent on this!When I plug the scope in to my computer it shows up in Device Manger under other devices as SDS1204X-E with the little yellow exclamation point next to it. Next I right click that and tell it to update driver, then click browse location, and select the folder I extracted the driver too, which is the newest driver I found on theSiglent SDS1000X-E support page, which is labeledScopes Labview Driver - 1.1.2.1. Everytime I do this Windows 10 tells me "Windows was unable to install your SDS1204X-E", becuase no drivers for the device were found. Well windows is right these driver downloads only seem to contain files for NI, there are no sys files, executables or anything else like that. I searched my C drive for "ausbtmc.sys" which is listed in one of the articles I linked too above, and it's nowhere to be found. So really it seems like the solution here is to Install NI-MAX which I have no issue with except the NI web site says you can not download NI-Max and that your device's should install it... I dont see any downloads at siglent for NI-Max either. What the heck is going on here???I also have one unrelated SDS1000X-E question, On my Siglent SDS1022DL 25Mhz scope there were options to digitally filter a channels signal using either lowpass/highpass/bandpass filters. I found this really useful, for instance if you wanted to check out higher frequency noise riding on top of a sin wave or filter the carrier out of a modulated signal. Is this not possible on the the SDS1000X-E all I see is a 20Mhz BW limit filter? Ive also noticed equivalent time sampling seems to be gone which is a shame because im betting a 200mhz bandwidth scope would be capable of easily reconstructing pretty high frequency carrier waves.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2020, 08:32:28 pm
content: Your links don't work.For any of the Easy*** SW packages NIVISA Runtime package with USB and LAN drivers need be installed to allow USB or LAN connectivity. Unfortunately it's some 100MB.Come back if you can't sort it and I can help you with further info about getting the drivers in the right places instead of Windows thinking it knows best.For the SDS****X-E scopes, while you can use EasyScopeX the inbuilt webserver is a better tool.Just connect the scope to your LAN and set its IP to a valid value and Save. Enter that IP into your browser and away you go !Further guidance here:https://siglentna.com/video/x-e-4-channel-web-browser-update-this-thing-is-fast/

author: rwgast_lowlevellogicdesin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2020, 09:26:01 pm
content: Hey thanks for the quick reply, I fixed all the links i put all the url's in quotes which caused auto formating to break them. Anyways none of those pages I linked too said anything about download NI VISA runtimes, which im doing right now. Im not to interested in EasyScopeX, Like I said I have the whole thing working over WIFI. I just want to write software to automate some testing. Guess I probably could have just wrote a c program to send scpi over wifi, and I wouldnt have needed any of this NI stuff?

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2020, 09:40:10 pm
content: Quote from: rwgast_lowlevellogicdesin on April 02, 2020, 09:26:01 pmIf you dive into the Easy*** SW Readme NIVISA or the much smaller Runtime package will be metioned.QuoteCorrect, no NI stuff is required for the webrowser connection. Apart from getting the scopes IP set up correctly it's plug and play and as you have WiFi working you've already have that sorted.Within the webrowser there's a SCPI command console for programming use.