HantekDSO

This project is a fork from SourceForge HantekDSO-0.5.4

Description

HantekDSO is a USB-oscilloscope software for Hantek, Novatek, Voltcraft, Darkwire, Protek, Acetech, etc DSO2090, 2150, 2250, 5200A, etc. oscilloscopes.

It is based on libusb and QT/OpenGL libraries. Project includes a firmware extraction utility and udev rules file for loading firmware under Linux/Unix.

Dependencies

• libusb (library to enable user space application programs to communicate with USB devices)
• Qt4 (cross-platform application and UI framework)
• mesa-libGL (open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification) To successfully build a project you need to have all development packages installed (libusb-devel, qt-devel (version 4.X), mesa-libGL-devel)

Firmware extraction utility dependencies

• libbfd (mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats)
• libiberty (collection of subroutines used by various GNU programs)

Both libraries (libbfd and libiberty) are included in the binutils-devel package

Also you need to have fxload utility installed in order to be able to upload firmware in to the oscilloscope.

How to BUILD

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

How to install Firmware

You need to find the firmware for the oscilloscope (usually in the folder /Driver on CD), convert it to .hex files, and make sure they get loaded into the oscilloscope when it is connected. Locate one of the following files, depending on the model of your scope: DSO20901.SYS, DSO21001.SYS, DSO21501.SYS, DSO22501.SYS, DSO520A1.SYS and put it in the folder with dsoextractfw utility. All characters in the file name must be uppercase. Please, rename the file to uppercase letters if need.

Run the program dsoextractfw. It searches for the files listed above in the current directory. If it finds any of them, it creates two files named DSOxxxx_firmware.hex and DSOxxxx_loader.hex. Move these files to /usr/share/HantekDSO/. Copy the file HantekDSO.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/, and add your user to the plugdev group.

Now, the firmware should be loaded automatically when the DSO is connected to an USB port. Once the firmware is loaded, the LED on the DSO starts to flash red. You can now run the program hantekdso. The LED will blink green. Make sure you have sufficient privilegies on the USB device or run as root (probably not recommended in the long run).

Thanks to:

• Fredrik Jansson