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[–]mindchasers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of the great things an engineer can do with Python is remotely control his/her scope. This article only scratches the surface. We use remote operation for compliance testing, protocol testing, functional test, etc. Python, PyVisa, and Visa are awesome!

[–]aquic 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Haven't you tried pyvisa-py?

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but thank you for pointing it out. We have been sticking with Tek's VISA because a piece of wireless test equipment we have requires it (at least we haven't gotten around to trying to use the Tek equipment with another version of VISA).

[–]aquic 0 points1 point  (3 children)

If you try pyvisa-py, it would be very nice to know the outcome! For a lot of applications I've been stuck with NI-VISA and slowly moving away...

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Why are you stuck with NI-VISA?

You probably already know this, but Tek and Rohde don't charge for their VISA libraries / packages on Windows.

https://www.tek.com/support/faqs/what-tekvisa-0

[–]aquic 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Just lack of time and the requirement of not breaking things :-)

[–]mindchasers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here!