lxi-tools v1.12

• Update to new URL
• Add snap status
• Fix redirection of output to file
• Update README
• Cleanup configure.ac
• Jakub Wilk: Use HTTPS in the configure script

lxi-tools v1.11

• Update README
• Update man page
• Update AUTHORS
• Expand tested instruments list
• Rename screenshot plugin rigol-1000 -> rigol-1000z
• Add various Rigol screenshot plugins
• Add the following Rigol screenshot plugins:
  • rigol-dg4000 Rigol DG4000 series function generator
  • rigol-dm3000 Rigol DM3000 series digital multimeter
  • rigol-dp800 Rigol DP800 series power supply
  • rigol-dsa800 Rigol DSA800 series spectrum analyzer
  • rigol-dsa700 Rigol DSA700 series spectrum analyzer The code is added on behalf of PeDre from the EEVBlog forum.
• Add authors section in README
• Add README.md to prettify GitHub page
• The original README is still preserved because it is more readable when not reading it via GitHub.
• Jakub Wilk: Strip trailing spaces
• Fix typo
• Fix grammar and typos

lxi-tools v1.10

• Add support for mDNS/DNS-SD discovery
• Add "--mdns" option which enables the discover command to search for LXI devices/services using mDNS/DNS-SD.
• Fix Siglent screenshot plugins
• Write correct response buffer to file. Improve .regex match expression.

lxi-tools v1.9

• Update README
• Fix newlines when redirecting to file or terminal
• Rename --dump-hex to --hex
• Fix missing error message when no SCPI command defined
• Update man page
• Remove --dump-file option
• The correct way to dump response to file is to use pipe output redirection. For example:
  • lxi scpi --address 192.168.1.210 "*IDN?" > response.txt
  • This way it is possible to dump any binary reponse to file.
• Fix missing error message when no IP address defined
• Print errors to stderr
• Cleanup Siglent SDS1000 plugin name
• Add Siglent SSA 3000X screenshot plugin
• Cleanup script examples
• Correct default SCPI raw/TCP port
  • By default use port 5025 as described here: http://www.lxistandard.org/About/LXI-Protocols.aspx
  • If a different port is needed use the '--raw-port' option.
  • Apparently Rigol is not using the recommended port for raw SCPI commands.
• Update descriptions of the plugin options

lxi-tools v1.8

• Update README
• Add Siglent SDS 1000 screenshot plugin

lxi-tools v1.7

• Update README
• Cleanup
• Update .regex for Tektronix plugin
• Update .regex for R&S plugin
• Update .regex for Keysight plugin
• Update man page
• Embed instrument IP address in screenshot filename
  • This helps identify screenshot files when capturing screenshots from multiple instruments.
  • It also allows to simplify the APIs used by the screenshot plugins.
• Change option '--model' to '--plugin'
  • Lets remove any model vs. plugin confusion and only deal with plugin names. Each plugin includes support for one or more instruments models as described in the plugin description.
• Add automatic loading of screenshot plugin feature
  • If no screenshot plugin is specified the tool will automatically try to select the best plugin by matching the instruments ID string against the regular expressions defined in each plugin.
  • Each screenshot plugin defines a .regex string entry containing space separated regular expressions. Each regular expression is matched against the instrument ID string. The plugin with most matches is selected.
  • Note: This mechanism is slightly slower than manually specifying which screenshot plugin because it needs to retrieve the instruments ID string first.
• Improve description of Rigol plugins
• Fix Rigol 2000 screenshot plugin
  • Remove trailing newline in received image data.
• Add screenshot plugin for Rigol 2000 series
  • Also, make existing Rigol plugin only apply for 1000z series.

lxi-tools v1.6

• Add date-time stamp to screenshot filename
• Improve command handling
  • In case of a misspelled command the tool would misleadingly respond: "Error: No IP address specified"
  • With this fix, it now responds: "Error: Unknown command"
• Update README
• Added screenshot plugin for Tektronix 2000 series scopes
• Improve scpi response output
• Add --raw and --raw-port options to scpi command
  • One can now use choose to use raw/TCP instead of VXI11 when firing SCPI commands. Simply append the --raw option like so:
  • lxi scpi --raw --address 192.168.0.42 "*IDN?"
  • By default raw/TCP port 5555 is used but it can be changed using the --raw-port option.
  • Warning: Using raw/TCP is faster than VXI11 but does not provide any timeout/control mechanisms so if your command somehow stalls it will stall forever.
• Use new lxi_connect() function
• Cleanup
• Make screenshot filename optional
  • In case no screenshot filename is provided the tool will write the screenshot image to an automatically resolved and incremented filename on the form screenshot-###.. For example, screenshot-000.png, screenshot-001.png, etc..
• Improve screenshot model listing
• Increase default timeout for screenshot command
  • Transferring screenshot image data takes time so lets increase the timeout so we do not easily interrupt a good but slow transfer.
• Collapse Rigol screenshot plugin
  • Support all Rigol oscilloscope models via one model name.
• Add screenshot support for Keysight IV 2000 X
• Cleanup plugins
• Add screenshot support for R&S HMO1000 series
• Add screenshot support for Rigol 2000/4000
• Create directory for screenshot plugins