Re: [time-nuts] python or matlab/octave for Keysight instruments?

2016-07-04 Thread Keenan Tims
PyVISA depends on the NI binary VISA libraries, which you then need to get to work with your instruments. Getting this all working is an endeavour I quickly gave up on. I've had good luck with python-ivi: https://github.com/python-ivi/python-ivi which should work well with modern instruments that

Re: [time-nuts] Ublox Neo-6M time error.

2016-06-01 Thread Keenan Tims
FYI, u-center works fine in Wine. It also works (and installs) perfectly in a Windows VM without any network access. So I don't know what problem you're having, but I don't think it's caused by ublox. On 1 June 2016 at 14:02, Mark Sims wrote: > I have no idea... I can't run

Re: [time-nuts] Last Call Group Buy Ublox LEA-6T

2016-05-26 Thread Keenan Tims
, Keenan Tims <kt...@gotroot.ca> wrote: > I had some of these boards made: > http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/osmo-lea6t-gps from the Gerbers > in the git repo. I'm running the cheaper LEA-6S modules for > prototyping but the boards seem to work well and were designed for the >

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO Alternatives

2012-12-06 Thread Keenan Tims
As a lurker, I just want to chime in and say that I for one would love to see an open-source GPSDO implementation. There are quite a few open hardware designs out there, but as Bob suggests, all the interesting bits are tied up in the closed-source software they run. And most of them are no longer

Re: [time-nuts] Fwd: Re: Contact: Jupiter GPS questions

2012-10-19 Thread Keenan Tims
There is an MSP430 port of GCC that works fine, and mspdebug is able to write the code to the chip via the programming hardware that comes on the Launchpad boards. TI also provides several free IDEs with code size limits, if you prefer that route. Definitely not as easy for a beginner as an