I - INTRODUCTION

QPicoscope is a QT frontend for Picoscope devices from Picotech.

It actually should support devices from series 2000 and 3000.

This program is now outdated as Picoscope has released a Linux program with much more functionnalities: https://www.picotech.com/downloads/linux

This program is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. See COPYING and COPYING.LESSER to get more info on this license.

II - CREDITS

QPicoscope is using:
- Qt. Copyright (C) 2012 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). Qt is a Nokia product. See qt.nokia.com for more information.
- Qwt. Copyright (C) 1997 Josef Wilgen; Copyright (C) 2002 Uwe Rathmann.
- AutoTroll. Copyright (C) 2006 Benoit Sigoure


III - INSTALLATION

First you will need to install one of the Picotech libraries.

The libraries can be downloaded from the official Picotech website: http://www.picotech.com/linux.html

Or are available within the lib directory.

To support both 2000 and 3000 series, install libps2_3000-x.x.x.x-x.i386 or libps2_3000-x.x.x.x-x.x86_64 depending on your system architecture.

To support only 2000 serie, install libps2000-x.x.x.x-x.i386 or libps2000-x.x.x.x-x.x86_64  depending on your system architecture.

In library folder you will find :
- a binary package to install .deb or .rpm depending on your distribution.
- a udev rule to add on your machine (probably in /etc/udev/rules.d/95-pico.rules), please have a look at this udev rule, while also indicates how to add a pico group to your machine and how to add your current user to this pico group.

Once Picotech library is install you can compile QPicoscope using:

- Autotools (see §III.1)
- qmake (see §III.2)

In both cases you will need the following packages to be installed on your machine (these are the names for Ubuntu 12.04 and might be different depending on your distribution):
- make
- qt4-qmake
- libqt4-dev
- libqwt5-qt4-dev

III.1 - INSTALLATION USING AUTOTOOLS

run the following commands:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

III.2 - INSTALLATION QMAKE

run the following commands:
cd src 
qmake-qt4 -set QMAKEFEATURES /usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/features
qmake-qt4 qpicoscope.pro
make


IV - BUG REPORT

QPicoscope is free and might be full of bugs!

To report bugs, please visit https://github.com/croutor/qpicoscope/issues


V - KNOWN ISSUES

please visit https://github.com/croutor/qpicoscope/issues