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Overwhelming power! upgrade your RIGOL OScope with cheat codes.

SensoredHacker0

The last few months have been crazy, lots of work, and hacking going on.
Today I was taking to a friend about programing my Rigol DS1054Z oscilascope with pyvisa.
I made a midi 2 function generator script to turn the Agilent 33220A into a synthesizer, then used the oscilascope to read the output and record the output.
but I've been having trouble generating audio sample longer than 1 Second.

My friend Jon came by and told me about ROM hacks for the RIGOL scopes. We did some googling, and stumbled onto REDACTED
LOL. REDACTED

you feed this thing the serial number and the DSFR "- all options" flag. it generates a license key, and you type that in using the intensity knob and onscreen keyboard.
The input is temperamental. pressing the key too quickly, or not quickly enough causes the key to shift.

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while this can also be done via telnet, we did not read that far ahead. We entered the code, and now my scope is full featured.

My friend will probably buy his own scope now too. A ds1054z might run you 300$, or more with the feature upgrade.
I'm just vouching for the success of this process. Maybe now I can get more than 1 Second wave samples out of this thing.

  • Unfortunately, that's likely not legal : ( However, even if it was just a gray area, there's a school of thought that there's no harm, but it can have a big impact on firms. I worked on some products (let's call the manufacturer M) that contained technology licensed from smaller supplier S. Since M is big, they were able to negotiate that the royalties were only payable to S when licenses were sold. That meant that if a customer C bought from M, then S would receive nothing from that sale if C enabled licenses without paying. In theory, C and M could turn a blind eye to it, but if they did, then S would suffer.

  • Shabaz has dealt with the ethics so I'll say no more on that.

    But, I'm struggling to understand what you are trying to do - I think you are trying to use the scope as an audio recorder which seems totally weird - it has a a pretty rough 8 bit ADC so the audio quality will be poor. All the models have 24M points of memory so I'm not sure that "upgrading" will help you much.

    Your pal should look at the more modern Rigol scopes because you can get a 12 bit resolution scope for little more than the cost of the DS1045Z. A DHO800 series cope starts at £298 (£357 with VAT).

    But if you want to record audio I have cheaper and better suggestions !

    And more - if you are generating the audio by sending commands to an HPAK Function Generator you could generate the same signal entirely in software (unless you really want the sound of a 12 bit DAC processed by an 8 bit ADC Relaxed

    MK

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