RIGOL All in One

After much consideration and investigation I'm putting this on hold until a suitable software is found or I have chance to build it.

In the mean time I'll be purchasing a more conveniently priced Analog Discovery 3 to test it out and to test out the waveforms software which looks great.

I can't improve the RIGOL software performance, making the scope almost unusable.

It's so slow, I've tried different hardware but it seems to be a software issue and I couldn't reliably use that on a day to day basis.

I'm not giving up yet, but until I can find or create reliable software solution we aren't getting to strip down stage just yet. 

First test is to ensure the scope will work with software. Had a few issues with this!

We require two pieces of software:

• Ultra Sigma
• UltraScope

Ultra Sigma is the "connection" software for RIGOL equipment and UlltraScope being the visualisation of the scope itself.

Both of the RIGOL software was being blocked by my firewall so I needed to write a rule to allow to operate properly. Once I worked that i could get both working, sending commands and received the visuals from the scope via UltraScope. 

However the refresh rate ofthe software is very slow, settings possibly need playing with. My laptop isn't the best either so that could also be a factor. 

Sigrok on the other hand is proving very difficult! Can't get communication with the scope at all via sigrok on windows. Tested on Linux it works first time but need to understand Sigrok and find out if you can get a live view or only snapshots.

Step One:

Step one will consist of taking the PCB from the DS1054Z and putting it in an enclosure, effectively making it a PC Oscilloscope. however a couples of things will be required first I believe, before strip down:

• Setup and test function using RIgol's PC software UltraScope 
• Setup and test function using Sigrok

Once I can confirm at least the first one works then we can take measurements and design an enclosure for the final pharse, making it a standalone PC scope.