Data Logging 8846A (Fluke 45) on Linux
Martin Riddle
for Linux?
It needs MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components), so Wine looks like it
will not work.
Thanks
Cheers
SoothSayer
You cannot be all that Linux centric if you still think that wine is a
solution (or should be or ever was).
There are Windows centric distros out there meant to run only windows
apps.
I cannot imagine that there are no serial data logging apps out there
written for it that do not require the WinLosePonents requisite.
Make blue tooth device and pipe it to your phone, then...
Write "An app for that..."
Martin Riddle
"SoothSayer" <SayS...@TheMonastery.org> wrote in message
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Well, that looks like it may be the only solution at this point, 'Write
an App for it'
Luckily Qt has a graph widget, so it may not be time consuming.
Cheers
Martin Riddle
"Martin Riddle" <marti...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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After some experimentation, using 'WineTricks' to install JET 4.0 and
MDAC. Wine allowed me to install FlukeView. But there still seems to be
a database problem and a chart graphics problem. I'll have to find some
tools to check if MDAC is operational.
Cheers
John Walliker
> After some experimentation, using 'WineTricks' to install JET 4.0 and
> MDAC. Wine allowed me to install FlukeView. But there still seems to be
> a database problem and a chart graphics problem. I'll have to find some
> tools to check if MDAC is operational.
Why not run a real copy of Windows in Virtualbox? You can set it up
to have shared access to part of the Linux filesystem for easy data
sharing.
John
Martin Riddle
"John Walliker" <jrwal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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John
This is an experiment in just using Linux. I'm not sure if the box can run a
VM since there is only 500meg of memory.
Cheers
Nico Coesel
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>"John Walliker" <jrwal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>On Aug 31, 2:12 am, "Martin Riddle" <martin_...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> After some experimentation, using 'WineTricks' to install JET 4.0 and
>> MDAC. Wine allowed me to install FlukeView. But there still seems to be
>> a database problem and a chart graphics problem. I'll have to find some
>> tools to check if MDAC is operational.
>
>Why not run a real copy of Windows in Virtualbox? You can set it up
>to have shared access to part of the Linux filesystem for easy data
>sharing.
That is the most sensible route. In my experience Wine is not working
if Wine wasn't tweaked for the specific application.
>This is an experiment in just using Linux. I'm not sure if the box can run a
>VM since there is only 500meg of memory.
Memory is cheap these days. Just add more.
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Martin Riddle
"Nico Coesel" <ni...@puntnl.niks> wrote in message
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> "Martin Riddle" <marti...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"John Walliker" <jrwal...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:1a0c7902-38c4-43cb...@s7g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>>On Aug 31, 2:12 am, "Martin Riddle" <martin_...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> After some experimentation, using 'WineTricks' to install JET 4.0
>>> and
>>> MDAC. Wine allowed me to install FlukeView. But there still seems to
>>> be
>>> a database problem and a chart graphics problem. I'll have to find
>>> some
>>> tools to check if MDAC is operational.
>>
>>Why not run a real copy of Windows in Virtualbox? You can set it up
>>to have shared access to part of the Linux filesystem for easy data
>>sharing.
>
> That is the most sensible route. In my experience Wine is not working
> if Wine wasn't tweaked for the specific application.
>
>>This is an experiment in just using Linux. I'm not sure if the box can
>>run a
>>VM since there is only 500meg of memory.
>
> Memory is cheap these days. Just add more.
>
It's an old box with SDram, it's maxed out. Ubuntu works well on it, but
the VM is slow as a snail.
I have a Win7 machine that will run the Fluke stuff. But it would be
great to get the MS Access ODBC running.
Partially there, I now get an error relating to sort order when creating
a mdb file. This I can sort out on my home box.
I see some have gotten it to work under Wine, so there must be something
I fudged while setting it up.
Cheers
Nico Coesel
I managed to get Orcad -more or less- working under Wine. It also
needs the ODBC. IIRC you can download these from Microsoft. There is a
FAQ on these subjects. But I strongly recommend not to invest any time
in Wine. Just get a better computer and use a VM.
Paul Hovnanian P.E.
A quick Google on the topic brings up a sample VB app to read/store Fluke 45
data:
http://bytes.com/topic/visual-basic/answers/553215-how-gather-data-via-rs-232-import-excel-using-vba
Here's some more info:
http://www.ensc.sfu.ca/~glennc/e220/fluke_45.pdf
It should be pretty simple to roll your own app with whatever language you
have available on your Linux box that can open a serial port and
send/receive ASCII. If you are up to that task, that is.
IEEE-488 should be do-able as well, assuming you have the hardware and
drivers installed on your system for that bus.
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Martin Riddle
"Nico Coesel" <ni...@puntnl.niks> wrote in message
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I agree, the last hail Mary yielded the same results. Must be something
missing.
I did get MDAC functioning, and data out of the sample databases. (I
must have
munged something in Wine on the first pass), but Flukeview generates
a 'Could not read data' error and hangs right after displaying the data
and graph.
When I have time I'll use processmon and see what other dll's are
required to run it.
Cheers