Picoscope 2408 Driver

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:42 am

Hi,

I am looking for LabVIEW drivers for the Picoscope 2408b or 2000 series oscilloscope. Is there any such drivers that can help me program. Thank You.

Post by **Gerry** » Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:33 pm

Hi Govind,

You can get the drivers from our downloads page here: https://www.picotech.com/downloads . For the 2204/A or 2205/A you would need the ps2000 driver. For any other 2000 series PicoScope including your 2408B, use the ps2000A driver. You can also get example Labview examples from here: https://github.com/picotech/picosdk-ni-labview-examples.

Regards,

Gerry

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:24 am

Hi,

Under the download sections there are many options for drivers for Picoscope 2408B for windows. Which is the one for labview, can you please tell me. Thank You.

Post by **Martyn** » Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:51 pm

You need one of the two PicoSDK 10.7.18 downloads which needs to match the version of LabVIEW you are using, either 32bit or 64bit.

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:18 pm

Hi,

I am working with LabVIEW 2012, will I be able to use the driver if I am working with 2012. Thank You.

Post by **Martyn** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:08 am

We haven't used LabVIEW 2012 for a few years so I would suggest you just try.

Check if your LabVIEW 2012 version is 32 bit or 64 bit and then download the matching version of our SDK, then try one of the matching examples from https://github.com/picotech/picosdk-ni- ... er/ps2000a and give it a go. If you have any issues then email support@picotech.com and one of the LabVIEW specialists will be able to assist.

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:46 am

Hi,

Mine is 32 bit version. I have downloaded the 32 bit, but cannot find it in labview. I also have a labview version of 2020 which is also 32 bit in another computer. I tried the same thing there as well but still couldn't find the driver in labview. What can be the problem for this? Thank You.

Post by **Martyn** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:06 am

Our drivers are not LabVIEW style VISA drivers so you won't see them. What you need to do is to use the coding examples from the GitHub link.

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:41 am

Hi,

Thank you. I tried running the example VIs, but it is showing error of not being able to find some VIs. I have attached screenshots of those errors. Why is this so.

Post by **Martyn** » Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:09 pm

You will also need the shared folder which is common across all devices

https://github.com/picotech/picosdk-ni- ... 268000346e

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:10 am

Thank You. It works now. Now all I have to do is learn how to use it. You can expect more doubts in the future when I start using it. Thank You.

Govind · Post by **Govind** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:23 am

I just got the Picoscope in my hand and have decided to run the labview code. But when I run the Picoscope2000aopen, I am getting the error Pico not found. What I understand is Picoscope2000aopen is the VI that gets the detect the device and return a handle to the device so that it can be used with other VIs. But then how will Picoscope2000aopen detect the device. Usually from my labview knowledge we need to give the usb port to which the picoscope is connected as the input to a VI to detect the device and then return handle. But I see no such thing in this Picoscope2000aopen program. So how do you detect the device. Thank You.

Post by **Martyn** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:31 pm

It looks like you may have PicoScope 6 open from your screenshot, if it is open and connected to the scope the LabVIEW examples will not work.

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