OpenHantek

OpenHantek is a free software for Hantek (Voltcraft/Darkwire/Protek/Acetech) USB digital storage oscilloscopes based on HantekDSO and has started as an alternative to the official Hantek DSO software.

Supported operating systems:

• Linux
• MacOSX
• Windows (You need to download the WinUSB driver files and customize the inf file for your device yourself at the moment)

Install prebuilt binary

Navigate to the Releases page

Building OpenHantek from source

You need the following packages, to build OpenHantek from source:

• CMake 3.0+
• Qt 5.3+
• FFTW 3+ (prebuild files will be downloaded on windows)
• libusb 1.x (prebuild files will be downloaded on windows)

For debian based systems (Ubuntu, Mint) install named requirements like this:

apt-get install cmake qttools5-dev-tools libfftw3-dev binutils-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

For rpm based distributions (Fedora) use this command:

dnf install cmake qt5-qtbase-gui qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qttranslations fftw-devel libusbx-devel binutils-devel libusb-1.0-0-devel

For MacOSX use homebrew

brew update
brew install libusb fftw qt5;

After you've installed the requirements either run cmake-gui or run the following commands inside the directory of this package:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make -j4 (for 4 concurrent compile jobs)
make install (optional, for installing only)

For MacOSX, the cmake command in the previous command list must include the directory where Qt5 is installed. Qt5 is installed in a directory with the same name of its version:

brew info qt5 For example, if brew showed 5.7.0, the cmake command should be: cmake ../ -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.7.0

You can specify an install prefix when running cmake:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

Firmware

Your DSO does not store its firmware permanently -- the firmware has to be sent to the device each time it is connected. The firmware directory of this project contains the binary firmware extracted from Hantek's Windows drivers, and a udev rule to upload the firmware to the device automatically each time it is plugged in.

• You need binutils-dev autoconf automake fxload
• Install the firmware/*.hex files into /usr/local/share/hantek/.
• Install the firmware/90-hantek.rules file into /etc/udev/rules.d/.
• install fxload (fxload is a program which downloads firmware to USB devices based on AnchorChips EZ-USB, Cypress EZ-USB FX, or Cypress EZ-USB FX2 microcontrollers.)
• Add your current user to the plugdev group.

Contribute

Please use Github Issues to report any problems or enhancements or send us pull requests. Some random notes:

• Read how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub.
• Use a topic branch to easily amend a pull request later, if necessary.
• Write good commit messages.
• Squash commits on the topic branch before opening a pull request.
• Use the same coding style and spacing.
• Open a pull request that relates to but one subject with a clear title and description