Nowadays, there are a lot of possibilities to control measuring instruments remotely or to query values. A very common and easy to learn variant is SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments). This whitepaper explains the basic definition of SCPI over TCP/IP and how to send commands via SCPI using the Python programming language.

Furthermore, a small example shows how easy it is to implement a SCPI communication with DEWETRON’s measuring instruments in Python to perform the desired measuring tasks and to query or save the results.

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