Timeline for Oscilloscopes with open-source software options
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| Sep 26, 2019 at 7:51 | comment | added | jaskij | I don't deny that. Good luck looking and do tell if you find something OSS with a nice GUI. | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 3:52 | comment | added | user13607 | Those sound fairly reasonable. I think there's the same issue there -- no source code for the actual application -- but if I have no other options they seem quite nice and affordable. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 20:14 | comment | added | jaskij | @RDragonrydr I've used PicoScopes on both Linux and Windows for the past five years (using their GUI) for the past five years without any issues, including those you mentioned. My daily driver is Manjaro Linux (based on Arch) - it's a cutting edge rolling release distribution so if it works here it will work on other new releases as well. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | user13607 | Partially personal preference, partially long-term maintainability, and partially because a lot of non-OSS software tends to include call-home functionality or requires connecting to a server hosted by its designer. That's bad for it if you want it to keep working after the manufacturer releases version 2.0. Or, and OSS is not immune to this, there's no offline (or sign-in free) installer, meaning that putting it on a new PC requires manufacturer support too. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 5:37 | comment | added | jaskij | @RDragonrydr there are very few OpenSource programs with a polished, modern GUI in general. My knee-jerk reaction is to tell you to buy commercial or improve it yourself. Why do you need it to be OSS anyways? | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 4:10 | comment | added | user13607 | Ah, I see what you mean. That might work, but I have to admit that I'd probably prefer something with a more polished-looking UI if I purchase something. I'll admit this might be hypocritical if it works well despite its appearance, but that is still something that matters when using a program. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | jaskij | Although from my experience most of their GUIs are not that good. Their wiki lists some more, try googling for "sigrok oscilloscope GUI" | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 17:27 | comment | added | jaskij | @RDragonrydr sigrok.org/wiki/PulseView | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 17:24 | comment | added | user13607 | That seems helpful. Does sigrok provide a UI for using the tools, though, or is it an interface library where I'd need another program? Their docs page doesn't have a section for using a 'scope (or say whether it contains the interface), and googling it didn't seem to recognize the name. | |
| Sep 23, 2019 at 20:34 | history | answered | jaskij | CC BY-SA 4.0 |