Picoscope on Linux - a note F.Y.I.

[StarFishPrime]

Hi
Just if anyone is interested. I have a Picoscope USB (mdl 2003) running happliy on Linux, specifically Ubuntu 14.10. Picoscope provide  a Linux version of their Picoscope software which runs natively on Linux and seems fine to me.

However their logging software - PicoLog is Windows only. I have it running successfully before me on an Ubuntu system within an XP virtual machine using VirtualBox under Ubuntu. The only problem was that, under Linux I had to make sure that I added the current user to the vboxusers group.

Ian

[dadler]

Do you find the Linux software fully featured?

Their primary windows PicoScope software (at least for the lower models) is C# based, so their recent Mac port is based on C#/Mono. I was saddened to see that the Mac version is missing tons of functionality. Many of the menus and functions are simply not there. The software is also choppy under Mono.

I have a PicoScope 2204A (lowest possible model) as a portable scope for automotive use--and was hoping to use it on my MacBook Air under OSX when I heard of the Mac port. I guess I will continue using the windows version.

[dom0]

Mono is primarily developed for Linux as far as I know.

[dadler]

Mono works great under Darwin/OSX. I develop against it at work daily (we also run Mono on Android and iOS). It's 'intended' to be cross-platform in the same way Java intends to be and I've encountered no performance problems with it on any of the UNIX platforms.

That said, PicoScope on Windows was certainly developed as a C#/.NET app using the MS Libraries. Mono is not at parity, library-wise, with .NET. I suspect that this precluded easy porting to UNIX and they had to do a hack job and ifdef out some of the features. Hence my ask If the Linux version is stripped down.