RIGOL · Oscilloscope

RIGOL DHO800/DHO900 series digital oscilloscope

BenchMesh controls the RIGOL DHO800/DHO900 series digital oscilloscope from your PC: live readings on a oscilloscope panel, every setting within reach, and every value recordable on one timeline with the rest of your bench.

Models

Model	Status	Note
DHO804	Bench-tested
DHO802	Awaiting confirmation
DHO814	Awaiting confirmation
DHO812	Awaiting confirmation
DHO914	Awaiting confirmation
DHO924	Awaiting confirmation

What you can do from BenchMesh

Oscilloscope panel 4 channels

Live readings

ACQ TYPE
BWLIMIT
COUPLING
DISPLAY
FREQ
INVERT
OFFSET
PROBE
SCALE
SRATE
TIMEBASE
TIMEOFFSET
TRIG LEVEL
TRIG SLOPE
TRIG SOURCE
TRIG STATUS
TRIG SWEEP
VAVG
VPP
VRMS

Settings you can change

Acquire type
Bwlimit
Coupling
Display
Invert
Offset
Probe
Run
Scale
Timebase
Timebase offset
Trigger level
Trigger slope
Trigger source
Trigger sweep

Connections

USB-TMC: USB Test & Measurement Class (USB id 1ab1:044d). No vendor driver needed on Linux; on Windows BenchMesh installs Microsoft’s WinUSB driver with one click.
LAN (SCPI socket): TCP port 5555. Enter the instrument’s IP address.

Notes

To confirm on first contactLAN socket port 5555 is not stated in the DHO800/900 guide (community: pydho800; Rigol's usual port).
Known issueScreenshot (:DISPlay:DATA? PNG) over the Linux kernel USBTMC driver crashed a DHO804; screenshots are disabled.

Sources

The definition was written from these documents (definition rigol_dho800 v1.0.0).

DHO800/DHO900 Programming Guide (DHO800-Series_programmingguide_EN.pdf), pages CHANnel 3.6, TIMebase, TRIGger, ACQuire, MEASure, WAVeform 3.28 (pp. 404-414)

Have one on your bench?

Connect it, press Detect, try the controls - then tell us how it went. Every confirmation moves a model from “Awaiting” to “Community-confirmed” for everyone.

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