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Add an additional Rigol quirk to skip INITIATE_CLEAR#62
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Hi. This patch updates usbtmc.py quirk handling to make it work better with Rigol DS1000Z-series oscilloscope (and probably also with DS2000-series).
DS1000Z does not handle INITIATE_CLEAR well, and USB response just times out (and hangs) once it receives this message. INITIATE_CLEAR is a required command as per USBTMC spec, but Rigol's implementation is known to be broken in many parts.
There's a workaround to do
echo *IDN? > /dev/usbtmc<N>to initialize the device without sending INITIATE_CLEAR, but that's Linux-specific and user has to figure out which /dev/usbtmc* device to use. This patch will make things much easier and portable.I have tested this patch with rigolcap.py script I pasted to gist:
https://gist.github.com/tai/408053a0955bf1712a5809240aa5544f
Also, just FYI, https://github.com/jtambasco/RigolOscilloscope.git which uses python-usbtmc works with Rigol, but has a following hack to make it work:
With this patch, user of usbtmc.py can now just do this: