Tuesday 2 June 2020

Rigol DS1000E series 'scope and Windows 10

Rigol have sadly been a bit lax in their support of this brilliant little 'scope and their elderly Ultra Scope GUI (which was quite good) doesn't work on Windows 10 x64.

However, you can use the open source tool PulseView which has a rigol-ds driver! The easiest way to make this work is Zadig which lets you install WinUSB for arbitrary USB devices (particularly ones without signed .INF or .CAT files)....

  1. Plug in your scope. Windows won't find a driver.
  2. Install Zadig, select your scope from the pull-down and pick WinUSB (takes a few seconds)
  3. Install PulseView - mine picked up the scope automatically

Admittedly it's not as fancy as the Rigol GUI (which really did look like a mock-up of your scope on screen) but it does the job and lets you screen share your 'scope when required.

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