/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/automating-readings-with-the-agilent-34461aThe Agilent 34461A has several connectivity options - LAN and USB, by default, with GPIB available as an option. This blog post will detail my experience with using both LAN and USB. Unfortunately, I do not have any equipment that uses GPIB, however,en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/automating-readings-with-the-agilent-34461aFri, 24 Feb 2017 02:10:36 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:1f715de3-255d-47e0-a410-e9a1499c8649agyaglikci0<p>Thanks for the Python class! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Seems like you need a quick update in the code, just because of an update of the backend. Since util.get_string does not have a length argument anymore, you need to remove 255s at the lines 154,155,156 of usbtmc.py:</p><p>&nbsp;</p>manufacturer=usb.util.get_string(self.usb_dev,<span style="text-decoration:line-through;"> 255,</span> self.usb_dev.iManufacturer)product=usb.util.get_string(self.usb_dev, <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">255,</span> self.usb_dev.iProduct)serial=usb.util.get_string(self.usb_dev, <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">255,</span> self.usb_dev.iSerialNumber)<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Otherwise it returns the following error as expected:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>ValueError: The device does not support the specified langid</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=17707&AppID=13&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">