Siglent SDS2000X Plus - Bugs / Missing Features / Feature Requests

[blurpy]

Empty dropdown for timezone is to be expected if you have a scope older than those shipped with firmware version 1.5.2R1 where timezone support was introduced.

Mine is also empty. The timezone data has never been included with any firmware updates. Just checked 1.6.2R5 and it's still not included. So it only works for those who have timezone data from the factory.

[tautech]

Empty dropdown for timezone is to be expected if you have a scope older than those shipped with firmware version 1.5.2R1 where timezone support was introduced.

Mine is also empty. The timezone data has never been included with any firmware updates. Just checked 1.6.2R5 and it's still not included. So it only works for those who have timezone data from the factory.

Interesting.
Can you please provide supporting screenshots ?
System Info too please.

We need take this to Siglent.

[blurpy]

We discussed this a while ago:

Version： V1.5.2R1

Although the Time Zone Setting appears on screen, I am unable to select or enter any Timezone information.

I'm having the same issue. I just see a timezone dropdown box with nothing in it and I can't select or change anything.

I see references to "/usr/share/zoneinfo/" in the firmware, which on a regular Linux system contains the timezone files.
But I can't see any timezone files shipped with the new firmware. So perhaps it's already included on new devices, but not older ones?

Update: since I haven't updated yet, I had a look around with telnet to see if I could find the files it's looking for:

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/ # ls /usr/bin/siglent/usr/localtime
ls: /usr/bin/siglent/usr/localtime: No such file or directory

/ # ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/
ls: /usr/share/zoneinfo/: No such file or directory

Would be interesting to know if "/usr/share/zoneinfo/" exists on the latest generation of devices.

I can't look around the file system anymore since telnet is disabled, but none of the firmware updates following that has included any time zone files so I think that is the reason it still doesn't work.

The current time zone dropdown, with nothing in it, and the arrow button disabled:



System info:

[mon]

To be clear, the timezone weirdness I was mentioning was nothing like you're all experiencing...

For me, I'd try to set the time and timezone at once, but only one would stick (and I could never quite figure out which one did stick), then trying to set the other one would offset the time - but I'm in GMT+10, and the offset was always +6 or -8 or something nonsensical, so it took a few goes to actually set the time.

[Performa01]

I did have 1.6.2R5. I did what you said and reset to factory settings and then reloaded 1.6.2R5, but I still have an empty drop down box for the timezone. How can I fix this?

Here's what I have for versions currently:
Software: 1.6.2R5
Uboot-OS: 5.0.0
FPGA: 2024-01-29
CPLD: 03
Hardware: 02-00

For the timezone feature to work, the latest Uboot-OS 5.04 is required.

Unfortunately, Siglent forgot to make the upgrade package public together with the release of FW 1.6.2R5.

Tautech does have the upgrade in form of the latest recovery package for SDS2000X Plus, so he should be able to help.

[tautech]

I did have 1.6.2R5. I did what you said and reset to factory settings and then reloaded 1.6.2R5, but I still have an empty drop down box for the timezone. How can I fix this?

Here's what I have for versions currently:
Software: 1.6.2R5
Uboot-OS: 5.0.0
FPGA: 2024-01-29
CPLD: 03
Hardware: 02-00

For the timezone feature to work, the latest Uboot-OS 5.04 is required.

Unfortunately, Siglent forgot to make the upgrade package public together with the release of FW 1.6.2R5.

Tautech does have the upgrade in form of the latest recovery package for SDS2000X Plus, so he should be able to help.

Thanks for reporting this and will add to it requesting an updated FW ASAP.

We got steve1515 all sorted. 

[blurpy]

Awesome! I'm updated to uBoot 5.4.0 with the help of tautech, so now I've got time zones

[mawyatt]

Now if we can just get Siglent to include the NTP function like in the SDS800X HD

Best,

[BillyO]

Now if we can just get Siglent to include the NTP function like in the SDS800X HD

Best,

+1

[Performa01]

Now if we can just get Siglent to include the NTP function like in the SDS800X HD

It's on their todo list.

[hpw]

+1

To add as from reported SDS2000 plus thread:

- 500u/Div requires several times the Self calibrations to get stable values

- after boot an up to 15 second idle time as DSO looks as dead

- channels C1..C4 and mixed with FFT spectrum:

  - Nice, dependent of channel selection, text gets its related channel color.
  - But gets soon unreadable as text has no cleared background color as here black.
  - Same issue as on FFT text: text should have a cleared background color.