[time-nuts] controlling instruments using USB

[Pete Lancashire]

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:02 PM, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Semi-off-topic..
>
> I've got a bunch of Keysight/Agilent/HP instruments with USB interfaces that
> I want to control from Python.  On Mac and PC, the PyVisa library works
> great (either the one with the NI back end or the python only back end )
>
> But, on Ubuntu, there's no way to install the NI drivers (RH install only,
> and Ubuntu is debian..)
>
> So, I've been doing usbtmc, which sort of works.  (after figuring out all
> the udev rules stuff)
>
> If I do something like this from the python interpreter:
>
>>>> import usbtmc
>>>> myinst = usbtmc.Instrument( mfr, product)
>>>> myinst.write('some command')
>
> it works fine.
>
> But if I put the same three linesin a .py file and run it, it doesn't always
> work.. sometimes, you need to send the command twice.
>
> It seems it might be a timing thing (in libusb or usbtmc?) but putting some
> sleep() in between connecting to the instrument and doing the write doesn't
> seem to work all the time.
>
> Very curious.
>
> Any ideas?
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