Re: Compatibility layer for pyvisa?

Alexander Huemer <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 11:18:01 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.gpib.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

That looks promising. I actually already had it installed but didn't 
look at it yet. From the README I figure that it has linux-gpib as a 
dependency. I'll have to look into it.
Thanks for the suggestion.

-Alex

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:58:44AM +0100, Roel Jordans wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> You may want to have a look at pyvisa-py.  That seems to work nicely
> for me without having to install the NI-VISA drivers.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Roel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Huemer <[email protected]>
> To: Linux GPIB general mailinglist <
> [email protected]>
> Subject: [Linux-gpib-general] Compatibility layer for pyvisa?
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 08:57:29 +0000
> 
> Hi
> 
> My understanding is this:
> * linux-gpib implements drivers for many GPIB interfaces and provides
> a 
>   userspace API on top of that, which is great.
> * pyvisa depends on vendor drivers like NI-VISA or the equivalent of 
>   other vendors.
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> I tried to get NI-VISA working yesterday in order to be able to use 
> pyvisa with a NI PCI board, on a distribution that they do not want to 
> support, on a i686 box.  I gave up after some hours, the configure 
> script they have in there was written by drunk monkeys.
> 
> So, here is my question: Did anybody consider to make the linux-gpib 
> drivers available to pyvisa?
> 
> -Alex
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.ni.com/de-at/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-kal.html#334223
> 
> 
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