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Issue with SDS 1104X-E with pyvisa

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Hello,

So I've been working on automating a signal generator and an oscilloscope in tandem. Most recently I got my Agilent 83630B to run and take commands. When I tried to run my code with both devices the scope started giving an error I should say that this is the error I get when I changed my USB driver I will show the original error after I change drivers and restart my computer.

"File "C:\Users\99101\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\serial\serialwin32.py", line 64, in open
raise SerialException("could not open port {!r}: {!r}".format(self.portstr, ctypes.WinError()))
serial.serialutil.SerialException: could not open port 'COM4': FileNotFoundError(2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.', None, 2)"

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My first thought was that this was some driver issue so I set it to (WinUSB (v6.1.7600.16385)). This didn't correct the issue and gave me the error above. I then went to check the keysight connection manager and other things

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The keysight manager displays the scope and seems like it can register a visa address. When I use the IO application to test the commands it outputs the IDN command? which makes me think it is connecting?

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When I run this same command through these various addresses I get that error that I mentioned above.

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I don't see how it can send commands through the application but not through my python script?

 

Here you can see my computer sees the scope in my device manager

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For some reason the NI max and NI visa do not see the device though and create this error as well?

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I will update this in a moment with the other driver errors and it's unique issues.

 

 

 

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Ok so I will now show the errors with the USB driver that I was using for the signal generator.

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So here we have the USB serial driver. When this driver is installed it now registers the devices on the NI max software

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It however creates this error?

 

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And this is new it seems like it's able to see the device in the keysight software? It wasn't doing this a moment ago.

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It however is not able to take the IDN command and gives this error unlike the other driver.

Here is my python code and the errors I get from that

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Any help is greatly appreciated I'm not sure what to do because the capabilities change so much based on these USB drivers? but neither does fully what I want it to do which is control the device through python.

 

 

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Accepted by topic author peteanater

I hate to do this.

I switched out the scope yesterday and it wasn't working and changed my backend configuration line of code from this

"rm = pyvisa.ResourceManager('@py')"

to this which should automatically change the backend to something desirable
"rm = pyvisa.ResourceManager()"
then I come in today and turn everything on.

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It connected and my code worked

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I don't remember changing anything besides switching out the scope and that backend line of code. To people in the future I do recommend changing the line of code I think that's what had this affect.

 

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