readme.md

OpenHantek

OpenHantek is a free software for Hantek and compatible (Voltcraft/Darkwire/Protek/Acetech) USB digital signal oscilloscopes.

• Supported operating systems: Linux, MacOSX, Windows¹, Android
• Supported devices: DSO2xxx Series, DSO52xx Series, 6022BE/BL

Features

• Digital phosphor effect to notice even short spikes
• Voltage and Spectrum view for all device supported chanels
• Math channel with these modes: Ch1+Ch2, Ch1-Ch2
• Freely configurable colors
• Export to CSV, JPG, PNG or print the graphs
• Supports hardware and software triggered devices
• A zoom view with a freely selectable range
• All settings can be saved to a configuration file and loaded again
• Multiple instances with a different device each can be started
• The dock views on the main window can be customized by dragging them around and stacking them. This allows a minimum window size of 640*480 for old workstation computers.

Install prebuilt binary

Navigate to the Releases page

Building OpenHantek from source

You need the following software, to build OpenHantek from source:

• CMake 3.5+
• Qt 5.4+
• FFTW 3+ (prebuild files will be downloaded on windows)
• libusb 1.x (prebuild files will be used on windows)
• A compiler that supports C++11

We have build instructions available for Linux, Apple MacOSX and Microsoft Windows.

Run OpenHantek

You need an OpenGL 3.2+ or OpenGL ES 2.0+ capable graphics hardware for OpenHantek. OpenGL is prefered, if available. Overwrite this behaviour by starting OpenHantek from the command line like this: OpenHantek --useGLES.

USB access for the device is required:

• As seen on the Microsoft Windows build instructions page, you need a special driver for Windows systems.
• On Linux, you need to copy the file firmware/60-hantek.rules to /lib/udev/rules.d/ and replug your device.

Specifications, Features and limitations

Please refer to the Specifications, Features, Limitations page.

Contribute

We welcome any reported Github Issue if you have a problem with this software. Send us a pull request for enhancements and fixes. Some random notes:

• Read how to properly contribute to open source projects on GitHub.
• Create a separate branch other than master for your changes. It is not possible to directly commit to master on this repository.
• Write good commit messages.
• Use the same coding style and spacing (install clang-format. Use make target: make format or execute directly from the openhantek directory: clang-format -style=file src/*).
• Open a pull request with a clear title and description.
• Read Add a new device if you want to know how to add a device.
• We recommend QtCreator as IDE on all platforms. It comes with CMake support, a decent compiler, and Qt out of the box.

Other DSO open source software

• SigRok
• Software for the Hantek 6022BE/BL only