Instrument Control

Tools Atoms packages
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Hi, my Name is Pascal and i’am working with instruments and homeworking systems like Bacnet.
But the subject here is, that it would be nice to have a full VISA toolbox again, with Serial, GPIB, USB and TCP/IP. some kind of one toolbox for any physical interface. Also BACnet and MQTT would be nice.

M.f.G. Pascal

2

Hello,

When you say “a full VISA toolbox again” does it mean that such a toolbox did exist in the past but was not ported to recent versions of Scilab ?

S.

3

No till scilab 6.02 there was a VISA Tollbox and then since then not supported anymore. Maybe i have overseen the tollbox here but there was one once.

4

Google gave me these hits:
https://www.scilab.org/news/signal-acquisition-and-instrument-control-visa-toolbox
and
https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/visa

/Claus

5

The bad news is that this old toolbox is not open source. It is highly unprobable that it would be recompiled in the future.

S.

6

At least this, thank you. But VISA should be opensource maby we could take the IVI Visa?

M.f.G. Pascal

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The problem is that the gateways sources were closed source. So even if IVI Visa is considered (instead of the proprieraty DLL) everything has to be done again.There is a package in Octave forge (https://wiki.octave.org/Instrument_control_package) but adapting to Scilab an Octave package is not that easy.

S.

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Well it was worth questioning it. for Bacnet i have done it with the Windowstack and always made some dos commands. MQTT and WS i could make the same if there were a curl update. There are many serial toolboxes, but not an official one. Maybe there is a GPIB exe or in the future I will go over IP?. Well i think i will go or rest with python till now. But we will see how scilab is developing. Maybe I will come back later.

OK. Till now thanks for the Answers.

M.f.G. Pascal

9

If i want a serial connection with putty, can i do it with scilab? i can open putty from console but not piping the datas trought scilab console or is there a way over powershell?

M.f.G. Pascal

10

Do you know this Scilab toolbox : https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/serial ?

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yes, but it is old and not so good you can not read raw or line it is minor to pyserial and well maybe there something better?