[time-nuts] prologix device as sniffer

[Patrick]

Thanks Abdul

This comes as a pretty big blow, as this is what I was hoping to do with 
it from the start.

Is there a way to set it up to read one address continuously?

thanks in advance-Patrick

Prologix wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> Prologix GPIB-USB controller does not work as a GPIB bus sniffer. In DEVICE
> mode the controller reads the bus only if it has previously been addressed
> as a listener.
>
> Regards,
> Abdul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Patrick
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:25 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: [time-nuts] prologix device as sniffer
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> Thanks to all for helping me with my last post. I am now reading with my 
> Prologix device.
>
> I am just not sure that I am reading everything. I am trying to monitor 
> the communication between a closed source App and some GPIB devices.
>
> After I set up imported and set up serial with PySerial I tried this:
>
> ser.write("++mode0\r\n")
>
> x=1
>
> def read3():
>     while(x==1):
>         print ser.read(1000)
>
> I also tried print ser.readline()
>
> I read the "ID" command sent out by the software but I could not read 
> the response. Am I reading all the addresses with this set up or just 
> one? Does anyone have some thoughts on why I don't read the response?
>
> Thanks yet again in advance-patrick
>
>
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