USB-TMC Shell

Overview

Interactive command shell for USB Test and Measurement device Class (TMC) device.

Installation

It can be installed from PyPI using pip:

pip install tmcsh

After installation, command tmcsh will be available.

Usage

1. Choosing a communication device

When you start tmcsh, you will be prompted to select a device.

$ tmcsh
USB-TMC shell v0.1.0
Connected USB-TMC devices:
  [0] Tektronix TDS2012B (0699:0367)
Enter the index of the device you want to communicate with.
Type 'r' to reload, ^C or ^D to abort.
>

Type index for communicate with:

0

After it, shell tries to establish connection.

Establish connection...

If that succeeds, you'll see a REPL-like prompt.

>>> 

2. Query the device

You can send IEEE 488 common commands...

>>> *IDN?
TEKTRONIX,TDS 2012B,C062851,CF:91.1CT FV:v22.01

>>> *ESR?
128

model-specific commands...

>>> DATA?
RPBINARY;REFA;CH2;1;2500;1

or commands that return binary.

>>> DATA:SOURCE?
CH2
>>> DATA:SOURCE CH1
>>> CURVE?
0000: 23 34 32 35 30 30 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 81 80 81
0001: 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 81 80 80 80 81 80 81 80 81
0002: 80 80 80 80 81 80 81 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80
0003: 80 81 80 80 80 81 80 80 80 80 81 80 80 81 81 80
0004: 80 81 80 81 81 81 81 80 80 81 80 80 81 80 80 80
0005: 80 80 81 80 80 80 81 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80
0006: 80 80 80 81 80 80 80 81 80 81 80 80 80 80 80 80
0007: 81 81 80 81 80 81 80 80 80 80 80 81 80 81 80 81
0008: 80 81 80 80 80 80 81 80 80 80 80 80 81 80 80 80
0009: 81 80 80 81 80 80 81 81 81 81 81 80 80 81 81 80
...

License

This repository is published under MIT License.