Overview

Sclipi is a command line tool for sending SCPI commands. SCPI is a standard syntax for remotely controlling test and measurement devices.

Sclipi features:

• Auto-completion support!
• History support (Up key cycles through previous commands)
• Interactive and non-interactive operation
• Saving command history to file
• Running scripts from file
• Copying response to clipboard
• Copying entire session to clipboard

Upcoming features:

• Device discovery via mDNS/DNS-SD

Usage

Interactive-Mode

By default Sclipi runs in interactive mode. This mode drops you into a shell where auto-completion and custom commands are enabled.

You will be presented with a prompt asking for the IP address of the target instrument. Auto-completion will assist by suggesting the first 3 octets of each of the network interfaces on your machine.

Once the connection is established, an auto-completion prompt will appear with all of the available options. Type any of these to get started:

• : and *: SCPI commands
• -: Actions (Show history, Save to script, Run script, Copy result to clipboard, etc)
• $: Shell Passthrough (e.g. $clear to clear the terminal)
• ?: Help
• quit or exit: Exit the shell

The behavior can be tweaked with various arguments, including:

• -a|--address <ip-address|hostname>: Connect to instrument this address (skips IP address prompt)
• -p|--port <port>: Change target SCPI socket port from the default 5025
• -q|--quiet: Suppress most output to reduce clutter
• Various --*-color options: Change the default color of various elements inside the shell

Non-Interactive Mode

If you know what commands you want to run (or have them saved to a file) and don’t want to drop into the interactive shell, there are two command line arguments to run SCPI command directly:

• -c|--command <scpi-command>: Run the provided command and print the result, if any
• -f|--file <file-path>: Run each of the commands in a newline-delimited text file sequentially, printing the results, if any

Both non-interactive arguments require that the address of the instrument is also provided using -a.

For Sclipi Developers

Simulated Instruments

If Sclipi is run from a directory containing a SCPI.txt file, it supports parsing that file into a list of supported SCPI commands. The file must be in the :SYSTem:HELP:HEADers? format.

Simulation mode can be triggered two ways: -The -s|--simulate argument -Typing simulated into the -a|--address argument or the IP Address interactive prompt